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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia

by T.M. Savage, K.E. Vogel
October 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
335 pages
13h 31m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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8.3 Digital Television
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for NTSC use. Developers use this information, or predetermined NTSC color palettes, to
select colors that will display properly on televisions.
8.3 Digital Television
Television, as its name suggests, began as a broadcast medium. The digital revolution in
video will be complete when analog TV broadcasts are replaced with digital transmission.
In the U.S., the federal government has mandated that television broadcasters switch to
digital transmission, and many digital programs are already available. Digital transmis-
sion of converted analog broadcast material is even more common: the small-dish satel-
lite receivers of services such as Direct TV transmit MPEG-2 encoded digital video. This
is not yet digital television ...
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