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Satellite, Cable, Terrestrial, IPTV, Mobile TV in the DVB Framework
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Third Edition
By
Herve Benoit, Herv Benoit, Field Marketing Manager for digital home systems at NXP Semiconductors France (formerly Philips Semiconductors), has 32
years of experience in consumer television and video products. Herv is active in system solutions for digital television receivers (set-top
boxes) and digital video recorders and has been also involved in the technical working group of experts on digital TV reception of the
French broadcast regulator (CSA) in view of the launch of Digital Terrestrial Television in France (TNT). Herv has written books on
Digital Television and Satellite Television that have been translated in French, English, Italian, Spanish, and Bulgarian.
Description
Digital Television is as an authoritative and complete overview that describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives
you a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard and the various steps of signal processing. Also
included is a complete technical glossary of terms, abbreviations, and expressions that gives you quick reference.
Now in it's 3rd
edition, Digital Television, this book is completely up-to-date with standard and new technologies including:
- DVB and DVB-S2
- IPTV
- Mobile TV DVB-H
- HDTV
- High Definition formats 1080i and 720p
- Compression including MPEG, H.264, and VC-1
If you are looking for
a concise technical briefing that will quickly get you up to speed without getting lost - this is the book you need.
Audience
Professionals in TV, video, broadcast engineering and digital media needing a technical overview.
Contents
1-COLOR TELEVISION
2-DIGITIZATION OF VIDEO SIGNALS
**new to this chapter, high definition formats : 720p, 1080i
3-SOURCE CODING : COMPRESSION
OF AUDIO AND VIDEO SIGNALS
**new to this chapter, high efficiency video coding : MPEG-4 AVC (H264), WMV9 (VC1), Other audio codings:
Dolby Digital (AC3).
4-SOURCE MULTIPLEXING
5-SOURCE AND CONDITIONAL ACCESS
6-CHANNEL CODING
7-MODULATION BY DIGITAL SIGNALS
**new to
this chapter, transmission standard : DVB-S2 (EN 302307), digital terrestrial television for mobiles : DVB-H
8-RECEPTION OF DIGITAL
TV SIGNALS
9-MIDDLEWARE AND INTEROPERABILITY ASPECTS
10-EVOLUTION : STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES
**new to this chapter, High definition
television, Internet protocol television (IPTV)
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C - Interconnection of digital audiovisual sytems : DVI,
HDMI
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 304 pages, publication date: JAN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-52081-0
ISBN-10: 0-240-52081-5
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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