ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 2|13 pages

Digitization of video signals

chapter 4|21 pages

Source multiplexing

chapter 5|8 pages

Scrambling and conditional access

chapter 6|9 pages

Channel coding (forward error correction)

chapter 7|28 pages

Modulation by digital signals

chapter 8|16 pages

Reception of digital TV signals

chapter 9|14 pages

Middleware and interoperability aspects

chapter 10|26 pages

Evolution: state of the art and perspectives