DTV
The Revolution in Digital Video
3rd Edition
Published on 25. January 2001
Book
Hardback
784 pages
978-0-07-137170-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is an engineering level guide to the ATSC DTV standard and it's impact upon all aspects of the television broadcast industry. Filled with examples, detailed diagrams, and schematics, the book describes, in tutorial fashion, all ATSC and SMPTE standards and FCC regulations guiding DTV licensing and applications. New material in this edition will deal with the implications of datacasting and interactive television, the European DVB system, and the bristling controversy over the ATSC standard's suitability for urban broadcast. The CD-ROM will contain over 1000 pages of DTV-related ATSC standard documents and FCC regulations, organized according to their relevance to book chapters.
Reviews / Votes
"A "must have" reference for DTV and DVD practitioners November 10, 1998 With a forward by Joe A. Flaherty, this tome covers the history, fundamentals and applications of digital television including transceivers, displays, codecs, compression and measurement. Audio encoding/decoding as well as transmission and implementation issues relating to the ATSC DTV system have their own chapters. A reference section and glossary are included. As a valuable part of the McGraw-Hill Video/Audio Engineering series, this is a "must have" for DTV and new media practitioners alike. - Amazon.com Customer ReviewMore details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
300 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 59 mm
Weight
1727 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-137170-4 (9780071371704)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
03/1999
2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
€64.47
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Person
Jerry Whitaker (Morgan Hill, CA) is the President of Technical Press, Inc. He is the author or co-author of over 20 technical books, including the previous two editions of DTV, The Standard Handbook of Video and Television Engineering, and Communications Receivers. He previously served as the Editor in Chief of Broadcast Engineering magazine.
Content
Introduction; Foreword; Preface; The Road to DTV; Applications for HDTV; Fundamental Imaging System Principles; Digital Coding of Video Signals; Video and Audio Compression; High Definition Production Systems; DTV Audio Encoding and Decoding; The ATSC DTV System; DTV Transmission Issues; Receiver Systems and Display Devices; The DVB Standard; Video Measurement Techniques; DTV Implementation Issues; Interactive Television Issues; Reference Documents; Using the CD-ROM; Glossary