U.S. Philips Corporation

Johannes I Tichelaar

Constant P Baggen

Adrianus C Van De Waterlaat

Wouter Venis

In a television signal receiver, including an intermediate frequency (IF) filter (3) having an intermediate frequency filter group delay, and an intermediate frequency (IF) demodulator (5) coupled to the intermediate frequency filter (3), a correction filter arrangement (9, 13, 15) is coupled to the intermediate frequency demodulator (5) and has a programmable group delay for cancelling a group delay precorrection carried out at a transmitter and the intermediate frequency filter group delay.

Television signal reception

An extended television signal comprises control data for controlling an extended television decoder. The control data comprise first information bits (NB) for conveying information which need not be very reliably decodable immediately upon switching between broadcast channels or when their contents have changed. Each first information bit (NB) is channel-encoded by means of a first DC-free channel code into first channel bits each having a first duration (2 Tc). The control data further comprise second information bits (LB) for conveying information which must be very reliably decodable immediately upon switching between broadcast channels or when their contents have changed. Each second information bit (LB) is channel-encoded by means of a second DC-free channel code into second channel bits which each have a second duration (10 Tc) exceeding the first duration (2 Tc).

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