As digital television and radio standards are established around the world, and digital signal processing drives rapid advances in broadcasting, forward-thinking broadcast engineers and technicians need to be current on the latest developments in digital broadcasting encoding practices, standards, and systems. This comprehensive book provides that essential knowledge. The book emphasizes the transmission aspects of Digital Television (DTV), including modulators and demodulators, the Digital Video Broadcasting standard for terrestrial Television (DVB-T), and the networks used to distribute and broadcast DTV signals. You find detailed coverage of critical topics, including Microwave Multipoint Distribution Systems (MMDS), Single Frequency Networks (SFN), and Multi Frequency Networks (MFN). Other key topics include details on receiver carrier to noise rations, field strengths, tests and measurements on DTV signals, set-top boxes, application programming interfaces, and the development of DTV in parallel with analog TV. Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is also explored, including audio encoding standards and emerging digital radio standards for medium and long wave broadcasts. The book's breadth of coverage, wealth of illustrations and diagrams, combined with a minimum of mathematics, make this book a timesaving resource and valuable introduction to this fast-developing technology.
Current Situation. Encoding of Television Signals. Some Common Consumer Digital Television Standards. MPEG2 The Broadcasters Choice. MPEG Transport Streams. Single Carrier Digital Modulations. Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. Transmission of DTV Signals. DTV Receivers and Measurements. Single Frequency Networks and Multi Frequency Networks. Radio Frequency Considertions. Digital MMDS Systems. Digital Audio. Mobile Broadcasting.
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Seamus O'Leary
Seamus O'Leary is a senior consultant with Mason Communications. He leads the digital TV centre of excellence for the Mason group. He is an advisor to ultility companies entering the telecommunications market. He is also a part time lecturer on digital video broadcasting technologies with Dublin City University. His skills include technical and business aspects of digital technologies. He is a member of IEEE, where he reviews papers for the broadcast technology society and of the IEI. He has served on the technical committee of DVB and worked on the validation of the Digital Video Broadcasting technologies.