The EIA-775-A DTV 1394 Interface Specification [5] standardizes the IEEE 1394 [15] High Performance Serial Bus interface for use with a Digital Television (DTV) receiver. EIA-775-A does not state compliance requirements for the types of digital transport methods or content
encoding that must be supported. This standard specifies profiles for various applications of the EIA-775-A standard. The application areas covered here include digital streams compliant with ATSC terrestrial broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite (DBS), OpenCable?US cable, and
standard definition Digital Video (DV) camcorders.