Convergence in broadcast and communications media : the fundamentals of audio, video, data processing and communications technologies / John Watkinson
Imprint
Oxford : Focal, 2001
Descript
xiv, 747 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Convergent systems -- Integrated circuits -- Digital processing principles -- Filters and transforms -- Sampling -- Sound -- Light -- Image portrayal -- Film -- Analog video -- Synchronizing -- Bandwidth and definition -- Interlace -- Television -- Telecine -- Conversion between television and computer formats -- Camera shake compensation -- Presentation -- Plasma displays -- Scanning lasers -- Micromirror projectors -- Loudspeaker principles -- Crossover networks -- Compression -- Digital coding principles -- Storage devices -- Disk storage -- Magnetic disks -- Accessing the blocks -- Servo-surface disks -- Winchester technology -- Disk servers -- Optical disk principles -- Focus and tracking systems -- Structure of a DVD player -- Digital video tape -- Rotary head tape transport -- Digital video cassettes -- DVTR block diagram -- Picture in shuttle -- DV and DVCPRO -- Communication systems -- Production-related interfaces -- SDI -- SDTI -- ASI -- AES/EBU -- Telephone-based systems -- Digital television broadcasting -- MPEG packets and time stamps -- Program clock reference -- Program Specific Information (PSI) -- Transport stream multiplexing -- Remultiplexing -- Broadcast modulation techniques -- OFDM -- DVB receiver -- ATSC -- Networks -- Network arbitration -- FireWire -- Broadband networks and ATM -- ATM AALs