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By
S. Merrill Weiss, Television award winner S. Merrill Weiss is a consultant in electronic media technology and management. He has nearly 40 years of experience
in broadcasting and related fields and draws upon extensive experience designing, building, and managing new technical facilities for
various electronic media companies. Mr. Weiss is an internationally recognized industry leader and expert in the development of new television
technologies, including digital video compression. He conducted the experiments that led to the first digital television standard (CCIR
Recommendation 601) in 1981 and has been involved in the development of virtually every DTV standard since. He has served with the FCC
Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, the Advanced Television Systems Committee and the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers.
Description
Drawn from the pages of his popular Advanced Television column in TV Technology magazine, Issues in Advanced Television Technology collects
the new television writings of technical author S. Merrill Weiss. Noted for his relaxed, conversational style and easily understood explanations,
Weiss leads the reader on an enjoyable trip through the latest developments, making highly complex subjects accessible to those with
all levels of experience. His material is of value to business managers making strategic decisions, technical managers forming implementation
choices, as well as system designers and operators preparing for future work assignments. Included in the discussion are the interests
of broadcasting, cable, wireless cable, telcos, DBS, and packaged media.
Covering the broad range of new technologies with a depth
not achieved elsewhere short of textbooks, Weiss introduces subjects such as digital video compression, transmission of digital signals,
audio compression, adaptive equalizers, packetization, transport and program streams, multiplexing, MPEG-2, serial digital jitter, storage
and servers, data broadcasting, and the motivations of the players in the media of the future.
Merill's articles are collected by many,
but early back issues are no longer available. Now, get all the articles in one place, organized by topic, updated and indexed. Catch
up on what you've missed! Take advantage of the easy access. Increase your knowledge. Prepare for your future. Let Issues in Advanced
Television Technology take you on an exploration of the marvels of the next generation of video technology.
S Merrill Weiss is an award-winning
consultant in electronic media technology, technology management, and management. He has nearly three decades of personal experience
developing and implementing new television technologies, participating in the writing of standards, and generally thinking about how
to move the industry forward. Through his regular monthly series of articles, and now through this, his second book, he shares his understanding
of where things are going.
Audience
Technical staff in the tv/video/telcom industries (i.e. station and network engineering staff, equipment manufacturers, engineers in telecommuniations industry).
Contents
Where to Begin?...Where Have We Been?...Where are We Going? * Into the Woods * Digital Video Compression * There's Audio in Advanced Television,
Too * The Systems Layer * Transmission Planning * Distributed Transmission * Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing * Standard
Definition Television * Widescreen 525 * Other Matters
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Paperback, 334 pages, publication date: APR-1996
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80250-3
ISBN-10: 0-240-80250-0
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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