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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to video traces and their use in networking research. After first providing the basics of digital video and video coding, the book introduces video traces, covering the metrics captured in the traces, the trace generation, as well as the statistical characteristics of the video characterized in the traces.

This text explores advances in HDTV technology. It highlights the technologies needed to launch HDTV from demonstration and trial status to that of a complete product and service, and contributes towards the the knowledge base required for the planning and management of the spectrum.

From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and a survey history of how Canadians have used the medium to tell themselves their own stories.As a part of her research, Mary Jane Miller watched thousands of hour...

This is the complete practical introduction to virtual reality and multimedia for those wishing to build systems. It covers the foundations and engineering needed to design and construct projects incorporating video, audio and textural elements and including the use of the latest hardware, to create an artificial world for education, information or entertainment. Production and authoring platforms are described, computer animation and hypertext are covered, but those looking for pages of soft...

The world of videotape recording is moving very fast with new recording formats having been added by all the major manufacturers over the past two years. This book pulls these formats together to enable users of the equipment to get a thorough grounding in the principles behind digital recording and a thorough overview of what formats are currently available. Starting with an introduction to digital VTRs, it covers what is currently happening in the important field of video data reduction, the p...

Based on a tutorial workshop, this book overviews the technical details involved in a cable system. A complete descriptive reference of a cable television system. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference available on cable television technologies. It covers issues not addressed in any other book such as modern headend design, reliability calculations, modern architecture, and equipment interface. Features: * Explains digital cable, analog cable, data on cable, telephone on c...

The definitive self-teaching guide to learning mathematics is now fully up-to-date. Unlike other math books that make your start at page one and work your way up to the technique you need, this unique guide steers you right to your topic of interest, fully explains it within its own context, and then shows you how to use it with real-world examples. The unique jump-in-anywhere format and conversational tone of Stan Gibilisco's and Norman Crowhurst's "Mastering Technical Mathematics" makes this b...

A-Z guide to data storage for video/audio pros.For professionals and hobbyists alike, Lee Purcell's CD-R/DVD: Digital Recording to Optical Media is the first and last word on this subject. Youll find expert and thorough explanations of CD-R and DVD-RAM technology, including inhouse CD duplication, labeling and printing systems, and Web sites on disc...CD and DVD standards, including packet-writing and other formats...recording equipment, including setting up a CD-R workstation, equipment selecti...

Provides complete coverage of television receiver theory and practice, starting from basic principles of monochrome and colour reception to digital processing of television signals. The use of discrete components and IC packages in modern TV receiver circuits is fully explained. The text is liberally illustrated with 277 digrams many of which are practical circuits currently used by TV manufacturers. Full explanation of NICAM digital setreo and computer controlled TV receivers has been included...

In this history of US-based direct broadcast satellite developments, the United States and other nation-states are shown to be the ultimate arbiters of their ongoing histories. In making this now unfashionable argument, Edward A. Comor directly challenges recent academic work that tends to privilege global processes over national, and argues that the contemporary world order is being shaped primarily by transnational rather than nation-state-based forces. In testing this orientation with empiric...

In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic situations and scenery. Making Believe sheds new light on these developments by historicizing screen performance within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in Hollywood filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras. Making Believe i...

This collection of essays sheds light on where we have come from, and where we are going in the media. It will be of interest to those working in, and those studying, the media, across the range of disciplines that are needed to regulate and build the media industry and create media content. This book brings together an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts, making it not only a work of the highest academic quality, but a unique collection of interdisciplinary research. Bringing tog...

In days past, you had a TV, radio, and maybe a turntable in your "living room." Today, the evolution of electronics has brought us the Home Theater System, combining projection Tvs, high-powered audio receivers, multiple CD players, DVD systems, surround-sound and more. This plethora of components is rarely purchased from a single manufacturer, making installation and maintenance a complicated task at best. Bob Goodman applies his electronics experience to this topic and provides a guidebook to...

This concise handbook presents a fascinating, intuitive look into the field of digital television. Ideal for the nontechnical person, it provides step-by-step examples of the concepts and principles behind broadcast media. This simple treatment of the subject will give readers a sophisticated understanding of the field and better information with which to judge home purchases.