Council Directive 92/38/EEC of 11 May 1992 on the adoption of standards for satellite broadcasting of television signals (7) set a regulatory framework of standards for advanced television broadcasting services for television programmes based on the HD-MAC standard (8) for European satellite and cable transmission for non-fully digital HDTV and the D2-MAC (9) standard for other not completely digital satellite and cable transmission in the wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratio format.
