DTV: The Revolution in Digital VideoThe electronics industry is on the verge of the most dramatic advance in imaging technology since the color television. Under the banner of High Definition Television, telecommunications, broadcasting, & computer are being merged into a single digital imaging system with a wide range of exciting new applications. This timely book brings the digital "Grand Alliance," & its role as the HDTV standard, into sharp focus. One of the best respected names in the field provides an engrossing account of the technology-including key aspects of video compression-& details late breaking developments in the effort to bring this emerging technology to market. |
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Preface by Jerry C Whitaker XXV | 1 |
Applications for HDTV | 43 |
Fundamental Imaging System Principles | 73 |
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Advanced Television algorithm amplitude analog applications aspect ratio ATSC standard audio B-frames bandwidth beam bit rate bit stream block diagram bytes cable camera channel chrominance coding coefficients color colorimetry components compression conventional decoder device digital television digital video display DTV standard dynamic range electronic elementary stream elements encoder error field film filter format frame frequency function HDTV HDTV system header high-definition high-definition television horizontal implementation input interlaced ITU-R layer luminance macroblock Mbits/s modulation monitor MPEG multiplexing noise NTSC operation optical output packet parameters percent phosphor pixels production progressive scanning quantization receiver resolution result sampling scanning screen SDTI sequence shadow-mask shown in Figure SMPTE specific spectrum splice subband Table telecine Television Systems terrestrial tion transmission transmitted transport stream trellis tube typically values vertical video signal waveform waveform monitor