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INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA
With Telephone and TV, it is not so much the message as the sender that is sent.
—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian sociologist
2.1 INTRODUCTION
The world of digital video is indeed very challenging. It involves delivering video to devices as tiny as mobile screens and as giant as digital cinema screens. In between lies a wide range of devices, such as TVs, monitors, PDAs, and projection systems, all with varying sizes and resolutions. The delivery may be via terrestrial, satellite, or cable systems; direct-to-home (DTH) platforms; or IP TV, 3G networks, or digital mobile TV broadcast networks such as DMB or ISDB. All these are made possible by standards and technologies that define audio and video coding, transmission, ...
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