This Master thesis deals with description, analysis and simulation of standards of digital video broadcasting DVB-C and DVB-C2. There is described mainly the transmission system, channel coding, type of modulation and OFDM symbols generation. Furthermore, channel models, used for the exploring of their performances are described too. There was created an application with a graphical interface in MATLAB, which simulates transmission in DVB-C2. Based on simulations there are compared influences of each settings on bit error rate of data transmission for both standards. Finally, obtained simulation results are compared with theoretical values