Newnes guide to television and video technology

Аннотация

The book starts with television fundamentals and builds up to multimedia convergence going through video displays, television receivers, recoding and playback systems. The first two chapters cover the principles of monochrome and colour television and the fundamentals of analogue TV broadcasting. This is followed by video compression for standard and high-definition and audio-compression techniques (Chapters 3–6) that are a prerequisite for digital video broadcasting and streaming. Chapter 7 deals with MPEG transport stream followed by Chapter 8 which explains the various types of modulation used in broadcasting digital television signals via satellite and terrestrial aerials.