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...
Tomorrow's Media
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.
Digital Television
by John F Arnold, Michael R Frater, and Mark R Pickering
Glasnost Erst Kurz VOR Sendeschluss (Medien in Geschichte Und Gegenwart, #18)
by Franca Wolff
This is a hands-on guide to using Encore DVD. It gets readers up to speed on the features of the application, and teaches the nuances of DVD title design and implementation. Packed with tips and tricks, it should enable readers to develop professional looking DVD-video titles. The companion DVD illustrates all the product features and provides sample project templates to make it easier for the reader to develop their own DVD titles.
Many of the repairs made by high-priced TV shops actually involve only cleaning or adjusting a few components, or replacing one or two 20p parts, available at the local electronics shop. This guide aims to enable the reader to save money by repairing many of the most common TV problems by his/herself. It is intended as a learning tool for video hobbyists, students and beginning technicians, covering solid-state TV circuitry, high-definition television, large screen TVs, and TV stereo systems.
Nigerian Television Fifty Years of Television in AFrica
by Esan Oluyinka
Video Processing and Communications
by Yao Wang, Jorn Ostermann, and Ya-Qin Zhang
For graduate level courses in digital video processing and communications, and as a reference book for practicing researchers and engineers. With more insights and examples than other texts of its kind, Video Processing and Communications provides a good balance between theoretical concepts and practical solutions, with more rigorous formulation of certain problems such as motion estimation, sampling, basic coding theory. It is unique in its coverage of error control, scalable coding, and video...
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades
by National Re Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Res