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DigiCipher 2

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The original attempt for a North American digital signal encryption and compression standard was DigiCipher 1, which was used most notably in the now-defunct
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DigiCipher II uses QPSK and BPSK at the same time. The primary difference between DigiCipher 2 and DVB lies in how each standard handles SI
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from those used in other transport streams. There are also private non-standard additions to DVB that add virtual channel remapping using
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number, whereas the DVB system never defined this type of remapping preferring to use a registry of
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that is assigned for each service in a transport stream with the concept of a
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which saves on broadcast bandwidth and loading times. DigiCipher II uses
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and audio signals. The DCII standard was originally developed in 1997 by
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audio for all channels, although MPEG-1 Level 2 audio is not supported.
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The DigiCipher 2 encryption standard was reverse engineered in 2016.
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in Aug 2011, and lastly became the Home portion of the division to
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for all other metadata tables. DigiCipher 2 also extends the MPEG
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