This book was created to provide the man in the field, be he a transmitter network planner, a service technician at a transmitter site, a technician responsible for MPEG-2 encoders and multiplexers in a studio or a playout center, an engineer working in a development laboratory or even a student, with an insight into the technology and measuring techniques of digital television. It concentrates deliberately on the practical things of importance and attempts to include as little mathematical "ballast" as possible.

Zusammenfassung
"Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology A Practical Engineering Guide" deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. The book provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition it contains chapters on the basics of technologies such as analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains. The attention in the respective field under discussion is focussed on aspects of measuring techniques and of measuring practice, in each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. This 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 intire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either.The third edition of this well established reference work includes the new formats MPEG-4 und IPTV, and it already gives an outlook to the newest standards like DVB-SH and DVB-T2.

Inhalt
Analog Television.- The MPEG Data Stream.- Digital Video Signal According to ITU-BT.R.601 (CCIR 601).- High Definition Television HDTV.- Transforms to and from the Frequency Domain.- MPEG-2 Video Coding.- Compression of Audio Signals to MPEG and Dolby Digital.- Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB.- A Comparison of Digital Video Standards.- Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream.- Picture Quality Analysis of Digital TV Signals.- Basic Principles of Digital Modulation.- Transmitting Digital Television Signals by Satellite DVB-S/S2.- DVB-S/S2 Measuring Technology.- Broadband Cable Transmission According to DVB-C.- Broadband Cable Transmission According to ITU-T J83B (US).- Measuring Digital TV Signals in the Broadband Cable.- Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM).- Terrestrial Transmission of Digital Television Signals (DVB-T).- Measuring DVB-T Signals.- DVB-H/DVB-SH Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds.- Digital Terrestrial TV to North American ATSC Standard.- ATSC/8VSB Measurements.- Digital Terrestrial Television according to ISDB-T.- Digital Audio Broadcasting - DAB.- DVB Data Services: MHP and SSU.- T-DMB.- IPTV Television over the Internet.- DRM Digital Radio Mondiale.- Digital Terrestrial TV Networks in Practice.- DTMB.- Return Channel Techniques.- Display Technologies.- The New Generation of DVB Standards.- Baseband Signals for DVB-x2.- DVB-T2.- DVB-C2 the New DVB Broadband Cable Standard.- DVB-x2 Measuring Techniques.- CMMB Chinese Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting.- Other Transmission Standards.- Digital Television throughout the World - an Overview.