Digital Television: Satellite, Cable, Terrestrial, IPTV, Mobile TV in the DVB Framework

Digital Television is as an authoritative and complete overview that describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives you a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard and the various steps of signal processing. Also included is a complete technical glossary of terms, abbreviations, and expressions that gives you quick reference. Now in it's 3rd edition, Digital Television, this book is completely up-to-date with standard and new technologies including: - DVB and DVB-S2 - IPTV - Mobile TV DVB-H - HDTV - High Definition formats 1080i and 720p - Compression including MPEG, H.264, and VC-1 If you are looking for a concise technical briefing that will quickly get you up to speed without getting lost - this is the book you need. KEY BENEFITS * Enhance your knowledge of digital television with this authoritative, technical introduction * Learn underlying priciples of the DVB system, compression technology, IPTV, Mobile TV, and more * Understand analog and digital formats and signal processing from transmission to reception

Cover — Table of Contents — Preface — Acknowledgments — Introduction — Chapter 1. Color television: a review of current standards — 1.1 Monochrome TV basics — 1.2 Black and white compatible color systems — Chapter 2. Digitization of video signals — 2.1 Why digitize video signals? — 2.2 Digitization formats — 2.3 Transport problems — Chapter 3. Source coding: compression of video and audio signals — 3.1 Some general data compression principles — 3.2 Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT) — 3.3 Compression of fixed pictures — 3.4 Compression of moving pictures (MPEG) — 3.5 Compression of audio signals — Chapter 4. Source multiplexing — 4.1 Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer — 4.2 Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams — Chapter 5. Scrambling and conditional access — 5.1 Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard — 5.2 Conditional access mechanisms — 5.3 Main conditional access systems — Chapter 6. Channel coding (forward error correction) — 6.1 Energy dispersal (randomizing) — 6.2 Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding) — 6.3 Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors) — 6.4 Convolutional coding (inner coding) — Chapter 7. Modulation by digital signals — 7.1 General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals — 7.2 Quadrature modulations — 7.3 Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S) — 7.4 OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T) — 7.5 Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial) — Chapter 8. Reception of digital TV signals — 8.1 Global view of the transmission/reception process — 8.2 Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD) — Chapter 9. Middleware and interoperability aspects — 9.1 Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe — 9.2 The open European middlewares — Chapter 10. Evolution: state of the art and perspectives — 10.1 Digital terrestrial television — 10.2 Evolution of the set-top box — 10.3 New architectures — 10.4 High-Definition Television (HDTV) — 10.5 Digital TV over IP — 10.6 Digital terrestrial television for mobiles — Appendix A: Error detection and correction in digital transmissions — A1.1 An error detecting code: the parity bit — A1.2 Block error correction codes — A1.3 Convolutional coding — Appendix B: Spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters — Appendix C: The main other digital TV systems — C1.1 The DSS system (satellite, the United States) — C2.1 The ATSC system (terrestrial, the United States) — C3.1 The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan) — Appendix D: The IEEE1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus — Appendix E: The DiSEqC bus for antenna system control — E1.1 The DiSEqC levels — E2.1 DiSEqC basic principles — E3.1 Different fields of the DiSEqC message — Appendi.