Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Color television: a review of current standards
Monochrome TV basics
Black and white compatible color systems
Digitization of video signals
Why digitize video signals?
Digitization formats
Transport problems
Source coding: compression of video and audio signals
Some general data compression principles
Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT)
Compression of fixed pictures
Compression of moving pictures (MPEG)
Compression of audio signals
Source multiplexing
Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer
Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams
Scrambling and conditional access
Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard
Conditional access mechanisms
Main conditional access systems
Channel coding (forward error correction)
Energy dispersal(randomizing)
Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding)
Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors)
Convolutional coding (inner coding)
Modulation by digital signals
General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals
Quadrature modulations
Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S)
OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T)
Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial)
Reception of digital TV signals
Global view of the transmission/reception process
Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD)
Middleware and interoperability aspects
Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe
The open European middlewares
Evolution: state of the art and perspectives
Digital terrestrial television
Evolution of the set-top box
New architectures
High-Definition Television (HDTV)
Digital TV over IP
Digital terrestrial television for mobiles
Error detection and correction in digital transmissions
An error detecting code: the parity bit
Block error correction codes
Convolutional coding
Spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters
The main other digital TV systems
The DSS system (satellite, the United States)
The ATSC system (terrestrial, the United States)
The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan)
The IEEE 1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus
The DiSEqC bus for antenna system control
The DiSEqC levels
DiSEqC basic principles
Different fields of the DiSEqC message
The common interface (DVB-CI)
DVI and HDMI links for interconnecting digital audiovisual equipment
Sample chipset for DVB receivers/decoders
Glossary of abbreviations, words, and expressions
Abbreviations
Words and expressions
Bibliography
Books
Official documents (in English)
Press articles and other publications
Some useful Internet addresses
Index