This practical guide offers all important digital television, sound
radio, and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC,
T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. It provides an in-depth look at these
subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition explains the
basics of essential topics like analog television, digital modulation,
COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency
domains.
The fourth edition addresses many new developments and features of
digital broadcasting. Especially it includes Ultra High Definition
Television (UHDTV), 4K, HEVC / H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding),
DVB-T2 measurement techniques and practice, DOCSIS 3.1, DVB - S2X, and
3DTV, as well as VHF-FM radio, HDMI, terrestrial transmitters, and
stations.
In the center of the treatments are always measuring techniques and of
measuring practice for each case consolidating the knowledge imparted
with numerous practical examples. The 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 entire field
of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc,
those who are students in this field are not excluded either.