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Newnes Guide to Digital Television - Richard Brice

Newnes Guide to Digital Television

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Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2000
Newnes (an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7506-4586-7 (ISBN)
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An introduction to digital television. It encompasses the electronics of the equipment, data compression, TV production, servicing, and the different transmission methods - terrestrial, satellite and cable. Maths is kept to a minimum.
The Newnes Guide to Digital Television provides a down-to-earth guide to all aspects of Digital TV, encompassing the electronics of the equipment, data compression, TV production, servicing, and the different transmission methods - terrestrial, satellite and cable. The book introduces the basic theory of digital technology and demystifies the world of MPEG-2. It also covers the process of broadcast from camera to transmitter, the workings of the receiver from antenna to tube, and the technology of encryption and the set-top box.

Thus, this book provides an overview of Digital TV for specialists in any one area as well as an introduction for those who want to gain a basic grasp of the technology. It is essential reading for managers in equipment design and manufacture, broadcasting and transmission. Above all, this book will provide service engineers and installers with a working knowledge of all aspects of Digital TV. Students and lecturers will find in this Newnes Guide all they need to know about this important new technology.


Richard Brice's descriptions are clear and accurate, but not burdened with too much jargon, and with maths kept to an absolute minimum.

Richard Brice has worked as a senior design engineer in many of Britain's top broadcast companies and has his own music production company.

Commercial Director of Miranda Technologies, a global company specialising in television and channel-branding equipment. Worked previously as a senior designer in several of Britain’s top broadcast companies. Previously Richard worked for Pro Bel where he designed the Freeway product series. For this he was cited in Post Update magazine as “one of the twelve disciples of TV design”. Richard was also responsible for the stereo enhancement system `Francinstien’ and the ‘OM’ three-dimensional stereo system. Both these systems have been used on many records, tapes and CDs as well as on television and film scores.Richard is author of Multimedia and Virtual Reality, Music Engineering and Newnes Guide to Digital Television.Director, Electric Perception Ltd

Introduction; Fundamentals of perception; Analog television; Digital television; Digital signal processing; Data compression; Digital video and audio production; MPEG and channel coding; Satellite, cable and terrestrial; Digital television in the home; Servicing, maintenance and troubleshooting.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.1.2000
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Technik Nachrichtentechnik
ISBN-10 0-7506-4586-5 / 0750645865
ISBN-13 978-0-7506-4586-7 / 9780750645867
Zustand Neuware
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