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Digital Video and HD
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Digital Video and HD

by Charles Poynton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
30h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Digital Video and HD
Digital television
broadcast standards
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In this chapter I will briefly summarize the standards for
digital television broadcasting. All digital broadcast
systems that have been standardized are based upon
AAPEG-2 compression, described in
IkIPEG-2 video
compression
on page 473.
H DTV transmission systems were conceived to deliver
images of about twice the vertical and twice the hori-
zontal resolution of SDTV- that is, about
2 megapixels -in a 6 AAHz analog channel. AAPEG-2 can
compress 2 megapixel images at 30 frames per second
to about 20 AAb/s. Modern digital modulation schemes
suitable for ...
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ISBN: 9781558607927