"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.
It is not so long ago that the second English edition of this book appeared.
In many countries, the switch-over from analog to digital television has
now been completed, especially in terrestrial television. Everyone is talking
about high-definition TV - HDTV - which is supported by virtually
every TV display on the market today. The reason that the HDTV supply
chain is not as yet gapless is not to be found in the technology but only in
the lack of available HD source material. However, this is expected to
change from 2010 onward. The number of studios which are being reequipped
with the new technology is ever increasing. Suitable compression
standards for HDTV have been around for years and there is now also sufficient
bandwidth available with the second generation of DVB transmission
standards.