Digital Television, 2nd Edition

Digital Television, 2nd Edition

Released August 2002
Publisher(s): Focal Press
ISBN: 9781136027055

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Book description

Written as an authoritative introduction, this text describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard following the logical progression of signal processing steps, as well as COFDM modulation, source and channel coding, MPEG compression and multiplexing methods, conditional access and set-top box technology. If you are looking for a concise technical `briefing' that will quickly get you up to speed with the subject without getting lost in the detail - this is the book you need.

After an overview of analogue TV systems and video digitization formats, the author then examines the various steps of signal processing - taken in order from transmission to reception - to facilitate an understanding of the architecture and function of the main blocks of the Integrated Receiver/Decoder (IRD) or "set-top" box. Herve Benoit focuses attention on the very complex problems that need to be solved in order to define reliable standards for broadcasting digital pictures to the consumer and gives solutions chosen for the current DVB system.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Colour television: a review of current standards
    1. 1.1 Monochrome TV basics
    2. 1.2 Black and white compatible colour systems
  10. 2. Digitization of video signals
    1. 2.1 Why digitize video signals?
    2. 2.2 Digitization formats
    3. 2.3 Transport problems
  11. 3. Source coding: compression of video and audio signals
    1. 3.1 Some general data compression principles
    2. 3.2 Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT)
    3. 3.3 Compression of fixed pictures
    4. 3.4 Compression of moving pictures (MPEG)
    5. 3.5 Compression of audio signals
  12. 4. Source multiplexing
    1. 4.1 Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer
    2. 4.2 Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams
  13. 5. Scrambling and conditional access
    1. 5.1 Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard
    2. 5.2 Conditional access mechanisms
    3. 5.3 Main conditional access systems
  14. 6. Channel coding (forward error correction)
    1. 6.1 Energy dispersal (randomizing)
    2. 6.2 Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding)
    3. 6.3 Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors)
    4. 6.4 Convolutional coding (inner coding)
  15. 7. Modulation by digital signals
    1. 7.1 General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals
    2. 7.2 Quadrature modulations
    3. 7.3 Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S)
    4. 7.4 OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T)
    5. 7.5 Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial)
  16. 8. Reception of digital TV signals
    1. 8.1 Global view of the transmission/reception process
    2. 8.2 Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD)
  17. 9. Middleware and interoperability aspects
    1. 9.1 Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe
    2. 9.2 The open European ‘middlewares’
  18. 10. Evolution: state of the art and perspectives
    1. 10.1 Digital terrestrial television
    2. 10.2 Evolution of the set-top box
    3. 10.3 New architectures
  19. Appendix A: error detection and correction in digital transmissions
    1. A1.1 An error detecting code: the parity bit
    2. A1.2 Block error correction codes
    3. A1.3 Convolutional coding
  20. Appendix B: spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters
  21. Appendix C: reception of the digital TV channels of ASTRA and EUTELSAT
  22. Appendix D: the main other digital TV systems
    1. D1.1 The DSS system (satellite, USA)
    2. D2.1 The ATSC system (terrestrial, USA)
    3. D3.1 The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan)
  23. Appendix E: the IEEE1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus
  24. Appendix F: the DiSEqC bus for antenna system control
    1. F1.1 The DiSEqC levels
    2. F2.1 DiSEqC basic principles
    3. F3.1 Different fields of the DiSEqC message
  25. Appendix G: the common interface (DVB-CI)
  26. Appendix H: example chipset for DVB decoders
  27. Glossary of abbreviations, words and expressions
    1. Abbreviations
    2. Words and expressions
  28. Bibliography
    1. Books
    2. Official documents (in English)
    3. Some useful Internet addresses
  29. Index

Product information

  • Title: Digital Television, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s):
  • Release date: August 2002
  • Publisher(s): Focal Press
  • ISBN: 9781136027055