METHOD FOR DISCOVERY AND INSTALLATION OF DIGITAL AUDIO/VIDEO SERVICES AND CORRESPONDING DEVICES

Embodiments of the present principles provide service discovery and installation for digital radio frequency broadcast services receivers. A service discovery and installation (SD&I) server or service installation server transmits a request to a receiver to establish a reception report. The request comprises a list with one or more transponders to test by the receiver. The receiver tunes to at least one transponder to test and retrieves reception data for each transponder tuned to, stores the retrieved reception data in a report and transmits the report to the SD&I server. Based on the data in the report, the SD&I server returns SD&I information to the receiver that is adapted to the receiver's reception environment and reception conditions.