Television today means moving pictures in colour with sound, brought to the viewer by terrestrial or satellite broadcast, cable or recording medium. The technique and processes necessary to create, record, deliver and display television pictures form the major part of this book. Television Fundamentals is written in clear English, with a minimum of mathematics. Readers are taken, in a logical sequence of small steps, through the fundamental principles of the subject, with practical applications and a guide to troubleshooting included. Encoding, decoding, recording and transmission are treated...

Audio for Television outlinines all the relevant principles and practices. Newcomers to the field will find it an invaluable, up to date resource and experienced sound people will gain from the explanations of new technology. The rate of change in the technology of television sound has recently accelerated to such a degree that it is now a sufficiently expansive subject to warrant a book of its own. These rapid changes, from the introduction first of stereo, then multi-channel or surround sound, have made it difficult for those working in this field to keep up with the technology and even...

Covering the developments in digital audio technology, this book provides an introduction to the theory. It includes internet audio, PC audio technology, DVD, MPEG audio compression, digital audio broadcasting and audio networks.

This text covers the essential fundamentals of digital video from video principles, to conversion, compression, coding, interfaces and output. The text is based on the industry bible, The Art of Digital Video, but covers only the essential parts of this larger reference work. It starts right from the basics from what a digital signal is to how digital video can be applied. The new edition now has more on the computing aspects of video, digital video broadcasting and video principles, basic colorimetry and picture principles as well as progressive versus interface scanning.

This text aims to bring all the fundamentals of digital audio to a wide audience, describing every topic in plain English. The book provides reasons rather than facts, and focuses on practical applications as opposed to theory. All of the key technologies are covered, including: Digital Audio Tape (DAT); Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB); Digital Versatile Disc (DVD); Super Audio Compact Disc (DACD); and oversampling, noise shaping and error correction theories.

Provides fundamental knowledge alongside practical guidance on how to avoid pitfalls and poor quality. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the standards - MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H-264. It covers topics on enabling technologies such as interpolation, motion estimation and transforms.