Recently, the digitization of broadcast services is being examined on a worldwide scale. It is expected that current broadcast services, of which audio and video information are the main constituents, will change to data broadcast services providing various additional information. The download technology has been developed which makes it possible to adapt to various TV program formats in the future by exchanging the software in the TV receiver without exchanging TV hardware components. In this article, we report on our software download technique using a simulation and describe the results and problems of this approach.
