Newnes Guide to Digital Television Book

Title:    Newnes Guide to Digital Television

Manufacturer:

Capstone Publishers

Capstone Publishers

Item Number: 9780750645867

Publication Date: November 1999

Number: 1

Product Description: Newnes Guide to Digital Television

Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780750645867

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Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross

Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross

	Preface	xiii
1	Introduction	1
	Digital television	1
	Why digital?	1
	More channels	3
	Wide-screen pictures	3
	'Cinema' sound	4
	Associated services	4
	Conditional access	6
	Transmission techniques	6
	Receiver technology	6
	The future ...	7
2	Foundations of television	8
	A brief history of television	8
	The introduction of colour	9
	The physics of light	9
	Physiology of the eye	10
	Psychology of vision - colour perception	12
	Metamerism - the great colour swindle	13
	Persistence of vision	14
	The physics of sound	14
	Fourier	16
	Transients	16
	Physiology of the ear	17
	Psychology of hearing	18
	Masking	19
	Temporal masking	20
	Film and television	21
	Television	22
	Television signals	24
	H sync and V sync	24
	Colour television	26
	NTSC and PAL colour systems	27
	SECAM colour system	31
	Shadowmask tube	32
	Vestigial sideband modulation	33
	Audio for television	34
	NICAM 728 digital stereo sound	35
	Recording television signals	35
	Colour under	36
	Audio tracks	38
	Timecode	38
	Longitudinal timecode (LTC)	38
	Vertical interval timecode (VITC)	40
	PAL and NTSC	40
	User bits	40
	Teletext	40
	Analogue high definition television (HDTV)	41
	MAC	43
	PALplus	43
	1125/60 and 1250/50 HDTV systems	44
	1250/50 European HDTV	44
3	Digital video and audio coding	45
	Digital fundamentals	45
	Sampling theory and conversion	46
	Theory	46
	The mechanism of sampling	48
	Aliasing	49
	Quantization	49
	Digital-to-analogue conversion	50
	Jitter	51
	Aperture effect	51
	Dither	51
	Digital video interfaces	52
	Timing relationships	54
	Clock signal	56
	Filter templates	56
	Parallel digital interface	57
	Serial digital interface	58
	HDTV serial interface	60
	Digital audio interfaces	60
	AES/EBU or IEC958 type 1 interface	61
	SPDIF or IEC958 type 2 interface	62
	Data	63
	Practical digital audio interface	65
	TOSlink optical interface	65
	Unbalanced (75 ohm) AES interface	69
	Serial multi-channel audio digital interface (MADI)	70
	Data format	70
	Scrambling and synchronization	71
	Electrical format	72
	Fibre optic format	72
	Embedded audio in video interface	72
4	Digital signal processing	76
	Introduction	76
	Digital manipulation	77
	Digital filtering	77
	Digital image processing	79
	Point operations	79
	Window operations	80
	Transforming between time and frequency domains	84
	The Fourier transform	84
	Phase	86
	Windowing	87
	2-D Fourier transforms	89
5	Video data compression	91
	Basic concepts	91
	Entropy, redundancy and artefacts	91
	Lossless compression	92
	De-correlation	93
	Lossless DPCM and Lossy DPCM	95
	Frame differences and motion compensation	96
	Fourier transform based methods of compression	98
	Transform coding	100
	A practical mix	103
	JPEG	104
	Motion JPEG (MJPEG)	106
	MPEG	106
	Levels and profiles	107
	Main profile at main level (MP@ML)	108
	Main level at 4:2:2 profile (ML@4:2:2P)	108
	Frames or fields	108
	MPEG coding	110
	MPEG coding hardware	114
	Statistical multiplexing	114
6	Audio data compression	116
	Compression based on logarithmic representation	116
	NICAM	117
	Psychoacoustic masking systems	117
	MPEG layer I compression (PASC)	118
	MPEG layer II audio coding (MUSICAM)	119
	MPEG layer III	120
	Dolby AC-3	120
7	Digital audio production	122
	Digital line-up levels and metering	122
	The VU meter	123
	The PPM meter	124
	Opto-electronic level indication	125
	Standard operating levels and line-up tones	126
	Digital line-up	126
	Switching and combining audio signals	127
	Digital audio consoles	128
	Sound mixer architecture	128
	Mixer automation	129
	Digital tape machines	130
	Digital two-track recording	130
	Digital multi-tracks	131
	Digital audio workstations	132
	Audio file formats	133
	WAV files	133
	AU files	134
	AIFF and AIFC	134
	MPEG	134
	VOC	135
	Raw PCM data	135
	Surround-sound formats	135
	Dolby surround	135
	Dolby digital (AC-3)	138
	Rematrixing	138
	Dynamic range compression	138
	MPEG-II extension to multi-channel audio	139
	Pro-logic compatibility	139
	IEC 61937 interface	139
	Dynamic range compression	140
	Multilingual support	140
	Editing MPEG layer II audio	140
8	Digital video production	141
	Switching and combining video signals	141
	Digital video effects	143
	What is a video transition?	143
	The cut	144
	The dissolve	144
	The fade	146
	Wipes	146
	Split-screens	147
	Keys	147
	Posterize	148
	Chroma-key	149
	Off-line editing	151
	Computer video standards	152
	Vector and bitmap graphics - what's the difference?	154
	Graphic file formats	155
	Windows Bitmap (.BMP)	156
	PCX	156
	TARGA	156
	GIF	156
	JPEG	157
	Computer generated images (CGI) and animation	157
	Types of animation	158
	Software	159
	2D systems	159
	Paint-system functions	159
	Compositing	165
	Morphing and warping	166
	Rotorscoping	167
	3D graphics and animation	168
	Matrices	169
	Imaging	171
	Light	172
	Ray tracing	174
	Hard disk technology	175
	Winchester hard disk drive technology	176
	Other disk technologies	176
	Hard drive interface standards	177
	IDE drives	177
	SCSI	178
	Fibre channel	178
	Firewire	178
	RAID	179
RAID 1	(mirroring)	180
Raid 2	(bit striping with error correction)	180
Raid 3	(bit striping with parity)	180
Raid 4	(striping with fixed parity)	181
Raid 5	(striping with striped parity)	181
	Media server	181
	Open media framework	182
	Virtual sets	182
9	The MPEG multiplex	183
	A 'packetized' interface	183
	Deriving the MPEG-II multiplex	184
	The PES packet format	184
	Transport stream	186
	Packet synchronization	186
	Packet identification (PID)	186
	Program association tables and program map tables	186
	Error handling	187
	The adaption header	187
	Synchronization and timing signals	187
	System and program clock references	188
	Presentation timestamps	188
	Splicing bitstreams	189
	Conditional access table (CAT)	189
	DVB service information	189
	Conditional access	190
	SimulCrypt and Multicrypt	190
	Channel coding	191
	Randomization (or Scrambling)	191
	Reed-Solomon encoding	192
	Convolutional interleaving	193
	Standard electrical interfaces for MPEG-II transport stream	194
	Synchronous parallel interface	194
	Synchronous serial interface	195
	The asynchronous serial interface (ASI)	196
10	Broadcasting digital video	198
	Digital modulation	198
	Quadrature amplitude modulation	198
	Modulation for satellite and cable systems	202
	Establishing reference phase	203
	Convolutional or Viterbi coding	203
	Terrestrial transmission - DVB-T (COFDM) and US ATSC (8-VSB) systems	204
	Coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM)	205
	Practical COFDM	206
	Adding a guard period to OFDM modulation	206
	The advantages of COFDM	207

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