Digital Television

Digital Television
By:"Hervé Benoit"
Published on 2008 by Taylor & Francis

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. KEY BENEFITS * Enhance your knowledge of digital television with this authoritative, technical introduction * Learn underlying priciples of the DVB system, compression technology, IPTV, Mobile TV, and more * Understand analog and digital formats and signal processing from transmission to reception

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Television After TV

Television After TV
By:"Lynn Spigel","Jan Olsson"
Published on 2004-11-30 by Duke University Press

DIVA critical reassessment of television and television studies in the age of new media./div

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Television Talk

Television Talk
By:"Bernard M. Timberg","Bob Erler"
Published on 2002-05-15 by University of Texas Press

Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers, the talk show is one of television's most popular and enduring formats, with a history as old as the medium itself. Bernard Timberg here offers a comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs. Dividing the history into five eras, he shows how the evolution of the television talk show is connected to both broad patterns in American culture and the economic, regulatory, technological, and social history of the broadcasting industry. Robert Erler's \

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Newnes Guide to Television and Video Technology

Newnes Guide to Television and Video Technology
By:"K. F. Ibrahim"
Published on 2007-09-14 by Newnes

This book provides a full and comprehensive coverage of video and television technology including the latest developments in display equipment, HDTV and DVD. Starting with TV fundamentals, the bulk of the book covers the many new technologies that are bringing growth to the TV and video market, such as plasma and LCD, DLP (digital light processing), DVD, Blu ray technology, Digital television, High Definition television (HDTV) and video projection systems. For each technology, a full explanation is provided of its operation and practical application, supported by over 300 diagrams including schematic diagrams of commercially available consumer equipment. Where relevant, testing and fault finding procedures are outlined together with typical fault symptoms supported by photographs. The new edition has a number of useful appendices on microcomputer/microcontroller systems, test instruments, serial buses (I2C and RS 232), teletext and error correction techniques. The book is intended for students of electronics and practicing engineers. In particular, it will useful for students on vocational courses and service engineers as well as enthusiasts. * The definitive guide to the new technologies transforming the world of television: HDTV, Digital TV, DVD recorders, hard disk recorders, wide-screen CRT, flat screen technologies and others * A practical approach, including troubleshooting and servicing information * Covers UK, European and North American systems

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