Manipulacion de La Informacion Televisiva (Paidos Communicacion, #35)
by Lorenzo Vilches
Super 8: An Illustrated History is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super 8 filmmaking. In addition to featuring stunning photography documenting the sleek mid-century design of Super 8 cameras and projectors, the book also offers a detailed history of the beloved medium-one not only embraced by suburban dads, the target audience of the format, but by the art world, punk rockers, and ultimately popular culture. Filmmakers who got their start in Super 8 include, Robert Zemeckis,...
Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation
by Patrick Seeling, Frank H. P. Fitzek, and Martin Reisslein
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.
Signal Processing of HDTV V
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...
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman's muttering in the background? Does the villain emit a scream, a grunt, or a howl as he goes down? And how do you note a gunshot without spoiling the scene? These are the choices closed captioners face every day. Captioners must decide whether...
The Media: Film and Television
by Michael Pelusey and Jane Pelusey
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...
Circle It, Television Facts, Word Search, Puzzle Book
by Lowry Global Media LLC and Mark Schumacher
An analysis of mainstream media and community radio in the United States and Canada. The author argues that access to media and the equitable distribution of information resources are the major prerequisites to an open and democratic media sphere.
The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms. Drawing on the archives of Warner Bros. and David O. Selznick Productio...
With a New Introduction Unsurpassed since its first publication, "Inside Prime Time" is the only book to take us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. Using more than 200 interviews with network executives, producers, writers, agents, and actors, as well as months of on-set investigation during the networks' more prosperous years, sociologist and critic Todd Gitlin takes us into a fra...
Modern Cable Television Technology (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)
by Walter Ciciora, James Farmer, and David Large
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...