Mastering Digital Television: The Complete Guide to the DTV Conversion - Rilegato

Whitaker, Jerry

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ISBN 10: 0071470166 ISBN 13: 9780071470162

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006

Riassunto

Design, maintain, and troubleshoot DTV equipment and signals

This practice-focused resource provides broadcast engineers and technicians with a complete technical manual for DTV broadcast and equipment.

• Details and annotates key DTV broadcast standards
• Covers the technical parameters that drive DTV system performance
• Offers clear explanations of the functions and capabilities of all major DTV system components

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L'autore:

Jerry C. Whitaker is a well-known author in the field of video, television, HDTV, and radio. The author and editor of dozens of books on technical topics, he edited the leading technical manual in television, The Standard Handbook of Video and Television Engineering. He is also the author of The DTV Handbook, The Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering, and The Electronics Handbook, as well as other standard references. Mr. Whitaker is a Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He has also served as Vice President and Board member of the SBE. Mr. Whitaker is Vice President for Standards Development at the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), the international organization charged with developing voluntary standards for digital television. He resides in Morgan Hill, California.

Contenuti:

Section 1: The Road to Digital Television

A Brief History of Television

Digital Television in the U.S.

Section 2: Fundamental Video Principles

Principles of Color Vision

The CIE Color System

Application of Visual Properties

Essential Video System Characteristics

The Principles of Video Compression

Section 3: Fundamental Audio Principles

The Physical Nature of Sound

Sound Propagation

The Physical Nature of Hearing

Audio Compression Systems

Section 4: Fundamental Transmission Principles

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Propagation

Longley-Rice Propagation Model

Modulation Systems and Characteristics

Section 5: Digital Television Standards

The ATSC DTV System

Video Compression and Decompression

DTV Audio Encoding and Decoding

DTV Transport System

Understanding ATSC/MPEG Syntax Tables

DTV Program and System Information Protocol

Multiple Transmitter Networks

DTV Satellite Transmission

DTV Data Broadcasting

Section 6: DTV Implementation Considerations

Video Production Issues

Audio Production Issues

Digital System Architecture

SUBJECT INDEX

INDEX OF FIGURES AND TABLES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0071470166
• ISBN 13: 9780071470162
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384