Dvb: The Family Of International Standards For Digital Video Broadcasting (signals And Communication Technology)

The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 300 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 40 countries committed to designing global standards for the delivery of digital television and data services. Ulrich Reimers is the chairman of its Technical Module and is therefore able to provide up-to-date insider information. This second edition of the book was revised and substantially extended by a new team of authors led by Professor Reimers. New chapters include Data Broadcasting, Solutions for Interactive Services, and the promising Multimedia Home Platform (MHP). Substantially revised are those on MPEG-2 systems and multiplexing, the standard for terrestrial transmission and its decoding technique, and the first chapter, the introduction to the DVB world. Digital Television ('Digital TeleVision Broadcasting'[DTVB] or'Digital Video Broadcasting'[DVB]) has become one of the most exciting develop­ ments in the area of consumer electronics at the end of the twentieth century. The term digital television is not typically used either to describe the digitisa­ tion of the production studio or to indicate the advent of digital signal proc­ essing in the integrated circuits used in television receivers. Rather, digital television refers to the source coding of audio, data and video signals, the channel coding and the methods for the transport of DVB signals via all kinds of transmission media. The term normally also embraces the technologies used for the return path from the consumer back to the programme provider, techniques for scrambling and conditional access, the concepts of data broad­ casting, the software platforms used in the terminal devices, as well as the user interfaces providing easy access to DVB services. The aim of this book is to describe the technologies of digital television. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Digital Television — a First Summary....Pages 1-20 Digitisation and Representation of Audio and Video Signals....Pages 21-35 MPEG Source Coding of Audio Signals....Pages 37-57 JPEG and MPEG Source Coding of Video Signals....Pages 59-90 MPEG-2 Systems and Multiplexing....Pages 91-109 Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Digital Television Transmission....Pages 111-146 Digital Modulation Techniques....Pages 147-179 Conditional Access for Digital Television....Pages 181-186 The Satellite Standard and Its Decoding Technique....Pages 187-206 The Cable Standard and Its Decoding Technique....Pages 207-236 The Standard for Terrestrial Transmission and Its Decoding Technique....Pages 237-283 DVB Data Broadcasting....Pages 285-301 DVB Solutions for Interactive Services....Pages 303-330 The Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)....Pages 331-361 Measurement Techniques for Digital Television....Pages 363-382 Bibliography....Pages 383-394 Acronyms and Abbreviations....Pages 395-402 Back Matter....Pages 403-408

This second edition provides first-hand information about the most recent developments in the exciting and fast moving field of telecommunications media and consumer electronics. The DVB group developed the standards which are being used in Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, and many other parts of the world. Some 150 major TV broadcasting companies as well as suppliers for technical equipment are members of the project. This standard is expected to be accepted for worldwide digital HDTV broadcasting. This book is readable for non-experts with a background in analog transmission, and demonstrates the fascinating possibilities of digital technology. For the second edition, the complete text has been up-dated thoroughly. The latest DVB standards are included in three new sections on Interactive Television, Data Broadcasting, and The Multimedia Home Platform.