DVB: The Family of International Standards for Digital Video Broadcasting / Edition 2

by Ulrich Reimers

Overview

Digital Television ("Digital TeleVision Broadcasting" [DTVB] or "Digital Video Broadcasting" [DVB]) has become one of the most exciting developments in the area of consumer electronics at the end of the twentieth century. The term digital television is not typically used either to describe the digitisa­ tion of the production studio or to indicate the advent of digital signal proc­ essing in the integrated circuits used in television receivers. Rather, digital television refers to the source coding of audio, data and video signals, the channel coding and the methods for the transport of DVB signals via all kinds of transmission media. The term normally also embraces the technologies used for the return path from the consumer back to the programme provider, techniques for scrambling and conditional access, the concepts of data broad­ casting, the software platforms used in the terminal devices, as well as the user interfaces providing easy access to DVB services. The aim of this book is to describe the technologies of digital television.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642078071
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/25/2011
Series:	Signals and Communication Technology
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2004
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Digital Television — a First Summary (Reimers).- 2 Digitisation and Representation of Audio and Video Signals (Johansen).- 3 MPEG Source Coding of Audio Signals (Fechter).- 4 JPEG and MPEG Source Coding of Video Signals (Ricken).- 5 MPEG-2 Systems and Multiplexing (Foellscher, Ricken).- 6 Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Digital Television Transmission (Roy).- 7 Digital Modulation Techniques (Jaeger).- 8 Conditional Access for Digital Television (Verse).- 9 The Satellite Standard and Its Decoding Technique (Verse).- 10 The Cable Standard and Its Decoding Technique (Jaeger).- 11 The Standard for Terrestrial Transmission and Its Decoding Technique (Liss, Reimers, Roy).- 12 DVB Data Broadcasting (Foellscher).- 13 DVB Solutions for Interactive Services (Leisse, Piastowski).- 14 The Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) (Klingenberg, Schiek).- 15 Measurement Techniques for Digital Television (Johansen, Ladebusch, Trauberg).- 16 Bibliography.- 17 Acronyms and Abbreviations.- 18 Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Dr. Reimers has been described as the Father of the DVB...and no one is better qualified to write about [its] developments... A real strength of this book is that in every case it not only provides the detailed technical information about the part of the system that is under consideration, but it also explains the background requirements that the engineers were striving to satisfy, and goes on to explain why the various technical decisions were arrived at. Having worked your way carefully through the chapter on source coding of video signals, for example, you begin to understand what the original difficulties were, what the various options were, and why the particular solutions were chosen ... As well as satisfying its main aims, DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING is an excellent reference book which covers most aspects of digital television engineering, and the author has helpfully gathered together in one place the key technical facts that would otherwise require you to have access to a dozen other books. Whether you are searching for information on digital coding systems, on compression, JPEG, the differences between MPEG1 and MPEG2, or whether you need to know how several different types of signals can be multiplexed together, or what the effects of using different error correction coding parameters will be, the information is there in the book. Equally importantly, you can actually find what you are looking for, because the index has been compiled with care. There is an extensive and useful bibliography which will be helpful for those readers who might want to know more about particular topics, and a comprehensive list of acronyms and abbreviations relating to digital broadcasting ... If you want a technical book to explain about digital broadcasting - this is certainly the one to buy."

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