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HDTV and the transition to digital broadcasting : understanding new television technologies / Philip J. Cianci.

By: Cianci, Philip JMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Focal, c2007Description: xxi, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780240809045 (pbk.) :; 0240809041 (pbk.) :Subject(s): High definition television | Television broadcastingDDC classification: 621.38806 LOC classification: TK6679 | .C55 2007
Contents:
The dawn of HDTV and digital television - A compressed history of HDTV - DTV fundamentals - The DTV receiver - HDTV and DTV standards - The transition to metadata - Emerging technologies and standards - The future and digital broadcasting.
Summary: The author points out that HDTV is not a simple replacement of analog TV, but a fundamentally different system. Audio and video are said to be 'more perfect' and there is 'a new content transport paradigm', since programs arrive at a DTV receiver as 'separate audio, video and data packets with assembly instructions'.
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Includes index.

The dawn of HDTV and digital television - A compressed history of HDTV - DTV fundamentals - The DTV receiver - HDTV and DTV standards - The transition to metadata - Emerging technologies and standards - The future and digital broadcasting.

The author points out that HDTV is not a simple replacement of analog TV, but a fundamentally different system. Audio and video are said to be 'more perfect' and there is 'a new content transport paradigm', since programs arrive at a DTV receiver as 'separate audio, video and data packets with assembly instructions'.

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