ABSTRACT

Drawn from the pages of his popular ¦Advanced Television¦ column in TV Technology magazine, Issues in Advanced Television Technology collects the new television writings of technical author S. Merrill Weiss. Noted for his relaxed, conversational style and easily understood explanations, Weiss leads the reader on an enjoyable trip through the latest developments, making highly complex subjects accessible to those with all levels of experience. His material is of value to business managers making strategic decisions, technical managers forming implementation choices, as well as system designers and operators preparing for future work assignments. Included in the discussion are the interests of broadcasting, cable, wireless cable, telcos, DBS, and packaged media.

Covering the broad range of new technologies with a depth not achieved elsewhere short of textbooks, Weiss introduces subjects such as digital video compression, transmission of digital signals, audio compression, adaptive equalizers, packetization, transport and program streams, multiplexing, MPEG-2, serial digital jitter, storage and servers, data broadcasting, and the motivations of the players in the media of the future.

Merill's articles are collected by many, but early back issues are no longer available. Now, get all the articles in one place, organized by topic, updated and indexed. Catch up on what you've missed! Take advantage of the easy access. Increase your knowledge. Prepare for your future. Let Issues in Advanced Television Technology take you on an exploration of the marvels of the next generation of video technology.

S Merrill Weiss is an award-winning consultant in electronic media technology, technology management, and management. He has nearly three decades of personal experience developing and implementing new television technologies, participating in the writing of standards, and generally thinking about how to move the industry forward. Through his regular monthly series of articles, and now through this, his second book, he shares his understanding of where things are going.

part 1|19 pages

Where to Begin?… Where Have We Been?… Where Are We Going?…

chapter 1|6 pages

Making Sense of It All

chapter 3|6 pages

ATV System Recommended – What’s Next?

part 2|44 pages

Into the Woods

chapter 4|9 pages

Seeing the Forest, Not Just the Trees

chapter 5|12 pages

Of Profiles, Levels, and Forests

chapter 6|8 pages

The Roots of Storage and Transmission

chapter 7|13 pages

The Varieties of Transmission

part 3|39 pages

Digital Video Compression

chapter 8|9 pages

Compression Means Removing Redundancy

chapter 10|7 pages

Discrete Cosine Transform

chapter 11|5 pages

Crunching the DCT

chapter 12|7 pages

The Buffer and the Human Visual System

part 4|20 pages

There’s Audio in Advanced Television, Too

chapter 13|7 pages

MPEG Audio Coding

chapter 14|11 pages

Dolby AC-3 Audio Coding

part 5|36 pages

The Systems Layer

part 6|46 pages

Transmission Planning

chapter 19|8 pages

Modulation and Channel Coding Methods

chapter 21|8 pages

The True Meaning of “Low Power”

chapter 22|10 pages

And the Winner Is … VSB … (Maybe)

chapter 23|9 pages

The Proposed Channel Pairing Plan

part 7|13 pages

Distributed Transmission

chapter 25|6 pages

The Devil’s in the Details

part 8|32 pages

Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

chapter 27|9 pages

Coding in COFDM & Experts Group Report

chapter 28|3 pages

Task Force Reports on COFDM

chapter 29|10 pages

Swan Song for COFDM in U.S.?

part 9|22 pages

Standard Definition Television

chapter 30|8 pages

The Meaning of SDTV, plus Audio Issues

chapter 31|12 pages

Extracting SDTV Images from HDTV Streams

part 10|14 pages

Widescreen 525

chapter 32|6 pages

Widescreen 525 as an Interim Step

chapter 33|6 pages

The Practical Side of Widescreen 525

part 11|32 pages

Other Matters

chapter 34|8 pages

Data Broadcasting — WavePhore

chapter 35|10 pages

Data Broadcasting — Digideck

chapter 36|12 pages

Jitter Characteristics and Measurements