Nearly ten years have elapsed since the last edition of this book, and the appearance of the first English edition dates even further back to 1.5 decades from now. In both periods many amazing technical innovations were introduced.

The most important invention in the last decades was the smart phone and the tablet PC. Both products have changed the world in general and also the world of broadcasting. Movies, as well as TV and audio broadcast services are now transported via both traditional transmission techniques and smart phones or tablet PCs. Especially the young generation uses more and more the IP-based broadcast technology called "streaming".

This current version of the book has been completely revised and extended to the current broadcast technology standards. Practical examples from the introduction phase of DVB-T2 are included as well as new standards like 3DTV, HbbTV, HEVC/H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding, UHDTV Ultra High Definition, 4K, DOCSIS3.1, OTT/streaming, ATSC3.0 and LTE/5G-based broadcast. Concerning audio broadcasting, both its digital aspect such as DAB/DAB+ and its analog form like FM are described.

Auteur
Walter Fischer, Dipl.Ing.(FH), born 2.6.1961, Studies of Electrical Engineering 1979-83, diploma thesis in technique of TV measurement at Prof. Mäusl, FH München. Since 1985 employed at Rohde&Schwarz Munich. Until 1999 in the area of development of technique of TV measurement. Since 1999 coach at Rohde&Schwarz Training Center Munich for the sector analog and digital technique of TV. Numerous seminars in the field of DVB world wide (more than 3000 participants).

Résumé

This practical guide offers all important digital television, sound radio, and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. It provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition explains the basics of essential topics like analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains.

The fourth edition addresses many new developments and features of digital broadcasting. Especially it includes Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV), 4K, HEVC / H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding), DVB-T2 measurement techniques and practice, DOCSIS 3.1, DVB - S2X, and 3DTV, as well as VHF-FM radio, HDMI, terrestrial transmitters, and stations.

In the center of the treatments are always measuring techniques and of measuring practice for each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. The book is directed primarily at the specialist working in the field, on transmitters and transmission equipment, network planning, studio technology, playout centers and multiplex center technology and in the development departments for entertainment electronics or TV test engineering. Since the entire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either.

Contenu

Introduction.- Analog Television.- Scanning an Original Black/White Picture.- Horizontal and Vertical Synchronization Pulses.- Adding the Color Information.- Transmission Methods.- Distortion and Interference.- Signals in the Vertical Blanking Interval.- Measurements on Analog Video Signals.- Analog and Digital TV in a Broadband Cable Network.- The MPEG Data Stream.- MPEG-Standards and Applications.- The MPEG-2 Transport Stream.- The Packetized Elementary Stream (PES).- The MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet.- Information for the Receiver.- Synchronizing to the Transport Stream.- Reading out the Current Program Structure.- Accessing a Program.- Accessing Scrambled Programs.- Program Synchronization (PCR, DTS, PTS).- Additional Information in the Transport Stream (SI).- Non-Private and Private Sections and Tables.- The Service Information according to DVB (SI).- 3.6 The PSIP according to the ATSC.- ARIB Tables according to ISDB-T.- DTMB (China) Tables.- Other Important Details of the MPEG-2 Transport Stream.- The Transport Priority.- The Transport Scrambling Control Bits.- The Adaptation Field Control Bits.-The Continuity Counter.- Digital Video Signal According to ITU-BT.R.601 (CCIR 601).- Video Signal Formats for HDTV and UHDTV.- Image Formats.- Uncompressed HDTV Baseband Signal.- Physical Video Interface Signals Up To UHDTV.- Transforms to and from the Frequency Domain.- The Fourier Transform.- The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT).- The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).- Implementation and Practical Applications of DFT and FFT.- The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT).- Time Domain Signals and their Transforms in the Frequency Domain.- Systematic Errors in DFT or FFT, and How to Prevent them.- Window Functions.- Video Coding (MPEG-2, MPEG-4/AVC, HEVC).- Video Compression.- Reducing the Quantization from 10 Bits to 8.- Omitting the Horizontal and Vertical Blanking Intervals.- Reduction in Vertical Color Resolution (4:2:0).- Further Data Reduction Steps.- Differential Pulse Code Modulation of Moving Pictures.- Discrete Cosine Transform Followed by Quantization.- Zig-Zag Scanning with Run-Length Coding of Zero Sequ.- Huffman Coding.- Summary.- Structure of the Video Elementary Stream.- More Recent Video Compression Methods.- MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding.- HEVC High Efficiency Video Coding, UHDTV.- Image Formats.- Video Coding Methods.- The Place of H.265 in the MPEG World.- Video Coding Steps in H.265.- HEVC in Detail.- Summary, Outlook, and the Path to UHDTV.- Audio Coding.- Digital Audio Source Signal.- History of Audio Coding.- Psychoacoustic Model of the Human Ear.- Basic Principles of Audio Coding.- Subband Coding in Accordance with MPEG Layer I, II.- Transform Coding for MPEG Layer III and Dolby Digital.- Multichannel Sound.- New Developments - MPEG-4.- Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB.- Teletext and Subtitles.- Video Program System.- WSS Wide Screen Signalling.- Practical examples.- Further Program Associated Data.- Physical AV Interface Signals.- Physical Interfaces for Digital Video Signals.- "CCIR 601" Parallel and Serial Interface.- Synchronous Parallel Transport Stream Interface (TS

PARALLEL).- Asynchronous Serial Transport Stream Interface (TS-ASI).- SMPTE310 Interface.- ISDB-T BCMUX.- DVI Interface.- HD-SDI interface.- DVB-IP interface.- SDI over IP, AVB.- HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface.- HDMI Development Path and Versions.- Mechanical Implementation.- HDMI Interface Functions.- HDMI Interface Signal Formats.- HDMI Measurement Technology.- HDMI Summary and Outlook.- Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream.- Loss of Synchronisation (TS_sync_loss).- Errored Sync Bytes (sync_byte_error).- Missing or Errored Program Association Table (PAT).- Missing or Errored Program Map Table (PMT) (PMT_error).- The PID_Error.- The Continuity_Count_Error.- The Transport_Error (Priority 2).- The Cyclic Redundancy Check Error.- The Program Clock Reference Error (PCR_Error).- The Presentation Time Stamp Error (PTS_Error).- The Conditional Access Table Error (CAT_Error).- Service Information Repetition Rate Error (SI_Repetition).- Monitoring the NIT, SDT, EIT, RST and TDT/TOT Tables.- Undefined PIDs (Unreferenced_PID).- Errors in the Transmission of Additional Service Information.- Faulty tables NIT_other_error, SDT_other_error, EIT_other_error.- Monitoring an ATSC-Compliant MPEG-2 Transport Stream.- Picture Quality Analysis of Digital TV Signals.- Methods for Measuring Video Quality.- Subjective Picture Quality Analysis.- Double Stimulus Continual Quality Scale Method DSCQS.- Single Stimulus Continual Quality Evaluation Method SSCQE.- Objective Picture Quality Analysis.- Summary and Outlook.- Basic Principles of Digital Modulation.- Introduction.- ...