Digital Television 3rd Edition:Satellite, Cable, Terrestrial, IPTV, Mobile TV in the DVB Framework

This essential guide for digital television engineers now includes IPTV, Mobile TV, and HDTV.

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.

1. Color television: a review of current standards
2. Digitization of video signals
3. Source coding: compression of video and audio signals
4. Source multiplexing
5. Scrambling and conditional access
6. Channel coding (forward error correction)
7. Modulation by digital signals
8. Reception of digital TV signals
9. Middleware and interoperability aspects
10. Evolution: state of the art and perspectives
Appendix A: Error detection and correction in digital transmissions
Appendix B: Spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters
Appendix C: The main other digital TV systems
Appendix D: The IEEE1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus
Appendix E: The DiSEqC bus for antenna system control
Appendix F: The common interface (DVB-CI)
Appendix G: DVI and HDMI links for interconnecting digital audiovisual equipment
Appendix H: Sample chipset for DVB receivers/decoders Glossary of abbreviations, words, and expressions