Broadband Return Systems for Hybrid Fiber/Coax Cable TV Networks
by Donald Raskin and Dean Stoneback
THE INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FOR CABLE OPERATORS, SYSTEM DESIGNERS, AND SUPPLIERS *Internet access, VOD, video games, telephony, and other interactive services *Overcoming the myths of return path engineering *Controlling RF noise and optimizing segmentation *Estimating network availability: practical new techniques *Detailed appendices cover digital measurements, transport, and access *For system operators, managers, designers, engineers, technicians, and suppliers This is the first complete guide...
Troubleshooting and Repairing Satellite Television Systems
by Richard Maddox
Broadband Cable Access Networks (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)
by David Large and James Farmer
Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad range of communication services. It provides in-depth coverage of high speed data transmission, home networking, IP-based voice, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing, new video compression...
Over the years, thousands of engineering students and professionals relied on Digital Video Processing as the definitive, in-depth guide to digital image and video processing technology. Now, Dr. A. Murat Tekalp has completely revamped the first edition to reflect today's technologies, techniques, algorithms, and trends. Digital Video Processing, Second Edition, reflects important advances in image processing, computer vision, and video compression, including new applications such as digit...
Canadian Television Programming Made for the United States Market
by Marsha Ann Tate
At the 1939 World's Fair and the Canadian National Exposition, RCA introduced and promoted a novelty known as television. Two decades later, this technology was well on its way to permeating virtually every home in America and Canada as well, spawning a growing, thriving industry in the process. Reception difficulties and government regulation, however, left Canada with a domestic television market only one-tenth the size of that in the United States. This, coupled with strict guidelines regardi...
Illustrated Guide to VCR Repair (TAB Electronics Technical Library)
by Gordon Mccomb
A best selling author, a popular topic, and superior how-to illustrations including crisp photographs and computer-generated line art -- those are the ingredients sure to make this pictorial repair guide an enduring success. Forget the repair shop; under Gordon McComb's expert tutelage, readers will learn to identify and fix typical VCR malfunctions at home. Features a quick-reference troubleshooting chart, easy-to-read hookup diagrams, and step-by-step "under the hood" instructions. Includes a...
Digital Television & its Status
Digital television (DTV) is a new type of broadcasting technology that will transform television as we now know it. DTV technology will allow broadcasters to offer television with movie-quality picture and CD-quality sound, along with a variety of other enhancements. DTV technology can also be used to transmit large amounts of other data into the home, which may be accessible by using one's computer or television set. DTV enables broadcasters to offer television with movie-quality picture and so...
OpenCable Architecture by Michael Adams is the Winner of the 2001 Cable Center Book Award! Learn how to bring digital TV, data, and interactivity to the television. Examine the new architectures being developed by the cable industry as part of the OpenCable initiative Review the recent history of interactive TV, including the Time Warner Full Service Network and Pegasus program Understand the concepts of hybrid fiber coax architecture Learn how the cable TV industry is evolving with converging...
University TV; Technology, Operation, and Services
by Lawrence Harte and Rick Brown
From the first notions of 'seeing by electricity' in 1878, through the period of the first demonstration of rudimentary television in 1926 and up to 1940, when war brought the advance of the technology to a temporary halt, the development of television gathered about it a tremendous history. Following the discovery of the photo-conductive effect, numerous schemes for television were suggested but it was in the wake of Baird's early demonstrations that real industrial interest developed and the p...
Digital Television: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Principles of the Dvb System
by Herve Benoit
An inside look at a cable titan and his industry John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy. For more than twenty-five years, Malone has dominated the cable television industry, shaping the world of entertainment and communications, first with his cable company TCI and later with Liberty Media. Written with Malone's unprecedented cooperation, the engaging narrative brings...
Complete 2021 Apple TV 4k/HD Guide for the Elderly ( Large Print Edition)
by Douglas a Harting
On March 15, 2011, Donald Trump changed television forever. The Comedy Central Roast of Trump was the first major live broadcast to place a hashtag in the corner of the screen to encourage real-time reactions on Twitter, generating more than 25,000 tweets and making the broadcast the most-watched Roast in Comedy Central history. The #trumproast initiative personified the media and tech industries’ utopian vision for a multiscreen and communal live TV experience. In Social TV: Multiscreen Conte...