HDTV and the Transition to Digital Broadcasting: Understanding New Television Technologies

ISBN-13: 9781138408449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Philip Cianci

Opis

Provides readers a working knowledge of digital television technology, an understanding of the challenges of HDTV and digital broadcasting, and a scope of the ramifications of HDTV in the consumer space. This book explores the integration of broadcast engineering and IT, control and descriptive metadata, DTV interactivity and personalization.

Recenzje

The book is for non- or semi-technical managers and executives who need an overview of of HDVT/DVT Tansition and the its role in business.

Spis treści

1. The Dawn of HDTV and Digital Television
2. A Compressed History of HDTV
3. The Fundamentals of DTV
4. The DTV Receiver
5. HDTV and DTV Standards
6. The Transition to Metadata
7. Emerging Technologies and Standards
8. The Future and Digital Broadcasting

O autorze

Philip Cianci's involvement in the HDTV effort began at Philips Research in the 1980s, where, as a designer, he was involved the development of Advanced Television Systems, culminating in the Grand Alliance HDTV prototype. Mr. Cianci was at ESPN during the construction and commissioning of the Digital Center and the debut of SportsCenter in HDTV. He is the Editor of the Transition to Digital” Broadcast Engineering Magazine e-Newsletter and is collaborating in the development of an HDTV archive with the Smithsonian Institution.