"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. The third edition of this well established reference work includes the new formats MPEG-4 und IPTV, and it already gives an outlook to the newest standards like DVB-SH and DVB-T2.
Author(s): Walter Fischer (auth.)
Series: Signals and Communication Technology
Edition: 3
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 800
Tags: Communications Engineering, Networks; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Analog Television....Pages 7-30
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 87-91
Transforms to and from the Frequency Domain....Pages 93-110
MPEG-2 Video Coding....Pages 111-146
Compression of Audio Signals to MPEG and Dolby Digital....Pages 147-163
Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB....Pages 165-174
A Comparison of Digital Video Standards....Pages 175-188
Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream....Pages 189-205
Picture Quality Analysis of Digital TV Signals....Pages 207-218
Basic Principles of Digital Modulation....Pages 219-260
Transmitting Digital Television Signals by Satellite – DVB-S/S2....Pages 261-292
DVB-S/S2 Measuring Technology....Pages 293-304
Broadband Cable Transmission According to DVB-C....Pages 305-313
Broadband Cable Transmission According to ITU-T J83B (US)....Pages 315-323
Measuring Digital TV Signals in the Broadband Cable....Pages 325-344
Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM)....Pages 345-367
Terrestrial Transmission of Digital Television Signals (DVB-T)....Pages 369-419
Measuring DVB-T Signals....Pages 421-450
DVB-H/DVB-SH – Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds....Pages 451-466
Digital Terrestrial TV to North American ATSC Standard....Pages 467-494
ATSC/8VSB Measurements....Pages 495-501
Digital Terrestrial Television according to ISDB-T....Pages 503-514
Digital Audio Broadcasting - DAB....Pages 515-558
DVB Data Services: MHP and SSU....Pages 559-566
T-DMB....Pages 567-568
IPTV – Television over the Internet....Pages 569-573
DRM – Digital Radio Mondiale....Pages 575-585
Digital Terrestrial TV Networks in Practice....Pages 587-636
DTMB....Pages 637-640
Return Channel Techniques....Pages 641-642
Display Technologies....Pages 643-659
The New Generation of DVB Standards....Pages 661-665
Baseband Signals for DVB-x2....Pages 667-685
DVB-T2....Pages 687-729
DVB-C2 – the New DVB Broadband Cable Standard....Pages 731-748
DVB-x2 Measuring Techniques....Pages 749-753
CMMB – Chinese Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting....Pages 755-755
Other Transmission Standards....Pages 757-764
Digital Television throughout the World - an Overview....Pages 765-767
Back Matter....Pages 769-818
