Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Designs, Systems and Operation

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Paul Dambacher Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Designs, Systems and Operation

Book gives an application-oriented overview of the technology of DVB-T, which is a hot topic at present. The author is an experienced industrial expert. Target groups are engineers in modern information and communication technology. In the past decades, traditional television broadcasting has been an autonomous field which was largely independent of the world of telecommunications and computers. The analog television standards PAL, SECAM and NTSC have remained almost untouched with regard to their picture information. Whatever development took place was essentially in support of programming and was based on the existence of a certain redundancy in the representation of the signal in the time and fre• quency domain. In the 70S, for example, the teletext system Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. was introduced throughout Europe. A further supplementary digital service in television, intro• 1998, XIV, 243 p. duced in the early 80S, was the Video Programme System (VPS) which utilizes part of the TV data line and ensures that programmes can be recorded with the correct timing on video Printed book recorders even when the programmes are delayed. There is no doubt that as far as the Softcover transmission from the studio to the view• er is concerned, the future belongs to digital video 64,99 € | £54.99 | $79.99 broadcasting (DVB) which is about to be implemented in the satellite, cable and terrestrial [1]69,54 € (D) | 71,49 € (A) | CHF radio transmission media. The European DVB Project finalized its specification for channel 77,00 coding and modulation for the digital broadband transmission channels at the begin• ning of 1996. eBook 53,49 € | £43.99 | $59.99 [2]53,49 € (D) | 53,49 € (A) | CHF 61,50 Available from your library or springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy Error[en_EN | Export.Bookseller. MediumType | SE]

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