Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology: A Practical Engineering Guide

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Walter Fischer (auth.)978-0-387-25627-6

“Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology – A Practical Engineering Guide” deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. The book provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition it contains chapters on the basics of technologies such as analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains. The attention in the respective field under discussion is focussed on aspects of measuring techniques and of measuring practice, in each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. This book is directed primarily at the specialist working in the field, on transmitters and transmission equipment, network planning, studio technology, playout centers and multiplex center technology and in the development departments for entertainment electronics or TV test engineering. Since the intire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either.Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology – A Practical Engineering Guide” is the 2nd and strongly enlarged edition of Walter Fischer’s “Digital Television”, the well established reference on this challenging technology.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XIX
Introduction….Pages 1-6
Analog Television….Pages 7-29
The MPEG Data Stream….Pages 31-80
Digital Video Signal According to ITU-BT.R.601 (CCIR 601)….Pages 81-85
High Definition Television — HDTV….Pages 87-90
Transforms to and from the Frequency Domain….Pages 91-108
MPEG-2 Video Coding….Pages 109-142
Compression of Audio Signals to MPEG and Dolby Digital….Pages 143-158
Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB….Pages 159-165
A Comparison of Digital Video Standards….Pages 167-178
Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream….Pages 179-195
Picture Quality Analysis of Digital TV Signals….Pages 197-207
Basic Principles of Digital Modulation….Pages 209-236
Transmitting Digital Television Signals by Satellite — DVB-S/S2….Pages 237-267
DVB-S Measuring Technology….Pages 269-277
Broadband Cable Transmission According to DVB-C….Pages 279-287
Broadband Cable Transmission According to ITU-T J83B….Pages 289-290
Measuring Digital TV Signals in the Broadband Cable….Pages 291-310
Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM)….Pages 311-332
Terrestrial Transmission of Digital Television Signals (DVB-T)….Pages 333-383
Measuring DVB-T Signals….Pages 385-413
DVB-H — Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds….Pages 415-428
Digital Terrestrial TV to North American ATSC Standard….Pages 429-445
ATSC/8VSB Measurements….Pages 447-453
Digital Terrestrial Television according to ISDB-T….Pages 455-458
Digital Audio Broadcasting – DAB….Pages 459-496
DVB Data Services: MHP and SSU….Pages 497-504
DMB-T and T-DMB….Pages 505-509
IPTV — Television over the Internet….Pages 511-512
DRM — Digital Radio Mondiale….Pages 513-522
Structure of DTV Networks and Transmitting Stations….Pages 523-542
Digital Television throughout the World — an Overview….Pages 543-545
Back Matter….Pages 547-580