| Description |
1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes "Glossary of abbreviations, words and expressions" (p. [179]-191). |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-194) and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Digital Telivision MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and principles of the DVB system; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Colour television: a review of current standards; Chapter 2. Digitization of video signals; Chapter 3. Source coding: compression of video and audio signals; Chapter 4. Source multiplexing; Chapter 5. Scrambling and conditional access; Chapter 6. Channel coding (forward error correction); Chapter 7. Modulation by digital signals; Chapter 8. Reception of digital TV signals; Chapter 9. Middleware and interoperability aspects. |
| Summary |
Written as an authoritative introduction, this text describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard following the logical progression of signal processing steps, as well as COFDM modulation, source and channel coding, MPEG compression and multiplexing methods, conditional access and set-top box technology. If you are looking for a concise technical b̀riefing' that will quickly get you up to speed with the subject without getting lost in the detail - this is the book you need. After an overvie. |
| Subject |
Digital television.
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MPEG (Video coding standard)
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Télévision numérique. |
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MPEG (Norme de codage vidéo) |
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Digital television |
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MPEG (Video coding standard) |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Benoit, Hervé. Télévision numérique. English. Digital television. 2nd ed. Oxford ; Boston : Focal, 2002 0240516958 (OCoLC)49640047 |
| ISBN |
008050454X (electronic bk.) |
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9780080504544 (electronic bk.) |
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9781136027055 |
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113602705X |
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