Digital Television Systems

A concise yet detailed guide to the standards applying to fixed-line and mobile digital television and the underlying principles involved.

Marcelo S. Alencar (Author)

9780521896023, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 March 2009

310 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.76 kg

Digital television is a multibillion-dollar industry with commercial systems now being deployed worldwide. In this concise yet detailed guide, you will learn about the standards that apply to fixed-line and mobile digital television, as well as the underlying principles involved. The digital television standards are presented to aid understanding of new systems in the market and reveal the variations between different systems used throughout the world. Discussions of source and channel coding then provide the essential knowledge needed for designing reliable new systems. Throughout the book the theory is supported by over 200 figures and tables, whilst an extensive glossary defines practical terminology. This is an ideal reference for practitioners in the field of digital television. It will also appeal to graduate students and researchers in electrical engineering and computer science, and can be used as a textbook for graduate courses on digital television systems.

Contents
List of figures
List of tables
1. Fundamentals of digital television
2. Audio and video coding
3. Fundamentals and standards of video and audio compression Jean Felipe Fonseca de Oliveira and José Ewerton Pombo de Farias
4. Channel coding for digital television Valdemar Cardoso da Rocha Jr.
5. Digital and analog transmission systems
6. Advanced Transmission Systems Committee Standard (ATSC)
7. Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Jeronimo Silva Rocha, Paulo Ribeiro Lins Júnior and Mozart Grizi Correia Pontes
8. Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting for Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (ISDB)
9. International System for Digital Television (ISDTV) Mylène Christine Queiroz de Farias and Marcelo Menezes de Carvalho
10. Digital Terrestrial Television Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB) Marcelo Menezes de Carvalho and Mylène Christine Queiroz de Farias
A. Evolution of television standards
B. Signal analysis
C. Random signal and noise
Index
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], Television technology [TJKV], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electrical engineering [THR]