Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. vii)
• Acknowledgments (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. xi)
• 1 Color television: a review of current standards (p. 1)
• 1.1 Monochrome TV basics (p. 1)
• 1.2 Black and white compatible color systems (p. 5)
• 2 Digitization of video signals (p. 17)
• 2.1 Why digitize video signals? (p. 17)
• 2.2 Digitization formats (p. 18)
• 2.3 Transport problems (p. 25)
• 3 Source coding: compression of video and audio signals (p. 31)
• 3.1 Some general data compression principles (p. 32)
• 3.2 Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT) (p. 35)
• 3.3 Compression of fixed pictures (p. 39)
• 3.4 Compression of moving pictures (MPEG) (p. 42)
• 3.5 Compression of audio signals (p. 61)
• 4 Source multiplexing (p. 75)
• 4.1 Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer (p. 75)
• 4.2 Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams (p. 80)
• 5 Scrambling and conditional access (p. 97)
• 5.1 Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard (p. 99)
• 5.2 Conditional access mechanisms (p. 101)
• 5.3 Main conditional access systems (p. 104)
• 6 Channel coding (forward error correction) (p. 105)
• 6.1 Energy dispersal (randomizing) (p. 106)
• 6.2 Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding) (p. 108)
• 6.3 Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors) (p. 109)
• 6.4 Convolutional coding (inner coding) (p. 111)
• 7 Modulation by digital signals (p. 115)
• 7.1 General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals (p. 116)
• 7.2 Quadrature modulations (p. 119)
• 7.3 Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S) (p. 121)
• 7.4 OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T) (p. 129)
• 7.5 Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial) (p. 139)
• 8 Reception of digital TV signals (p. 143)
• 8.1 Global view of the transmission/reception process (p. 143)
• 8.2 Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD) (p. 145)
• 9 Middleware and interoperability aspects (p. 159)
• 9.1 Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe (p. 163)
• 9.2 The open European middlewares (p. 167)
• 10 Evolution: state of the art and perspectives (p. 173)
• 10.1 Digital terrestrial television (p. 173)
• 10.2 Evolution of the set-top box (p. 176)
• 10.3 New architectures (p. 179)
• 10.4 High-Definition Television (HDTV) (p. 183)
• 10.5 Digital TV over IP (p. 185)
• 10.6 Digital terrestrial television for mobiles (p. 193)
• Appendix A Error detection and correction in digital transmissions (p. 199)
• A1.1 An error detecting code: the parity bit (p. 199)
• A1.2 Block error correction codes (p. 200)
• A1.3 Convolutional coding (p. 205)
• Appendix B Spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters (p. 209)
• Appendix C The main other digital TV systems (p. 213)
• C1.1 The DSS system (satellite, the United States) (p. 213)
• C2.1 The ATSC system (terrestrial, the United States) (p. 215)
• C3.1 The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan) (p. 217)
• Appendix D The IEEE 1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus (p. 221)
• Appendix E The DiSEqC bus for antenna system control (p. 225)
• E1.1 The DiSEqC levels (p. 225)
• E2.1 DiSEqC basic principles (p. 226)
• E3.1 Different fields of the DiSEqC message (p. 229)
• Appendix F The common interface (DVB-CI) (p. 237)
• Appendix G DVI and HDMI links for interconnecting digital audiovisual equipment (p. 241)
• Appendix H Sample chipset for DVB receivers/decoders (p. 247)
• Glossary of abbreviations, words, and expressions (p. 249)
• Abbreviations (p. 249)
• Words and expressions (p. 262)
• Bibliography (p. 271)
• Books (p. 271)
• Official documents (in English) (p. 272)
• Press articles and other publications (p. 274)
• Some useful Internet addresses (p. 275)
• Index (p. 277)