| Preface | | ix | |
| The History of Television |
| | 1 | |
| The Evolution of Storytelling |
| | 2 | |
| The History of the TV Set |
| | 3 | |
| Color Television (1950s and 60s) |
| | 9 | |
| A Video Recorder in Each Home (1970s and 80s) |
| | 13 | |
| Cable Television and DTH Satellites (1980s and 90s) |
| | 14 | |
| Multiplexed Analog Components System (Early 1990s) |
| | 15 | |
| | 19 | |
| Shannon's Information Theorem |
| | 20 | |
| Digitizing a Video Signal |
| | 20 | |
| Measuring and Compressing Digital Video Signals |
| | 22 | |
| Digital Video Broadcasting |
| | 31 | |
| Picture and Sound Quality |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | |
| Why Change to Digital TV? |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | |
| | 44 | |
| Launch Vehicles From All Over the World |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | |
| Satellite Payload: The Transponders |
| | 57 | |
| What is the Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power? |
| | 65 | |
| | 67 | |
| Satellite Positions and Power |
| | 68 | |
| | 69 | |
| | 78 | |
| Low Noise Block Converters (LNBs) |
| | 80 | |
| | 83 | |
| Modulating Digital Signals |
| | 85 | |
| Error Protection and Transmitted Bitrate |
| | 88 | |
| | 89 | |
| | 92 | |
| Installing Multi-Focus Antennas |
| | 100 | |
| Optimizing Parabolic Antennas |
| | 106 | |
| | 119 | |
| The Headend: The Heart of the Cable TV Network |
| | 120 | |
| | 122 | |
| The MATV (Master Antenna TV) Network |
| | 124 | |
| | 126 | |
| Coaxial Cable TV Networks |
| | 126 | |
| Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Networks (HFC) |
| | 128 | |
| | 131 | |
| SMATV, Satellite MATV Systems |
| | 134 | |
| Terrestrial Digital TV Signals in Coaxial Cable Systems |
| | 135 | |
| Digital TV by Terrestrial Transmitters |
| | 137 | |
| Antennas for Terrestrial TV Reception |
| | 140 | |
| | 146 | |
| Multi-Directional Antenna Systems |
| | 152 | |
| | 153 | |
| Digital Terrestrial Receivers |
| | 154 | |
| | 156 | |
| Terrestrial TV for Mobile Devices; DVB-H |
| | 156 | |
| | 159 | |
| | 160 | |
| | 162 | |
| Software Media Player Options |
| | 169 | |
| | 174 | |
| | 177 | |
| | 178 | |
| Digital TV with Interactive Services |
| | 182 | |
| Digital Receiver Firmware |
| | 184 | |
| The Application Interface |
| | 185 | |
| | 186 | |
| | 187 | |
| | 189 | |
| | 191 | |
| The Antenna System for Terrestrial Signals |
| | 192 | |
| Connecting the Digital Receiver to the TV and Other Video Devices |
| | 197 | |
| | 199 | |
| Connecting a Satellite Dish to Multiple Receivers |
| | 207 | |
| The Telephone and Computer Networks |
| | 218 | |
| The Home Computer Network |
| | 219 | |
| | 221 | |
| Solving the Need for Analog Recorded Video |
| | 222 | |
| | 224 | |
| | 230 | |
| | 232 | |
| | 235 | |
| Home Cinema Display Components |
| | 236 | |
| | 242 | |
| Connecting Home Cinema Components |
| | 248 | |
| | 249 | |
| | 261 | |
| HDTV and the Future of Television |
| | 263 | |
| High Definition TV (HDTV) |
| | 264 | |
| Practical Aspects of Receiving HDTV |
| | 269 | |
| | 269 | |
| The High Definition Multimedia Interface, HDMI |
| | 272 | |
| First Generation HDTV Transmissions in Europe |
| | 273 | |
| | 277 | |
| | 277 | |
| | 281 | |
| | 282 | |
| Appendix A Digital Television in North America |
| | 287 | |
| Commercial Television Systems |
| | 288 | |
| | 290 | |
| Frequency Planning and the Transfer to Digital TV in North America |
| | 290 | |
| Connectors Around the World |
| | 292 | |
| Appendix B North American Satellite Geography |
| | 293 | |
| North American Satellite Systems |
| | 294 | |
| Satellite Receiving Systems in the U.S. |
| | 295 | |
| The Three LNB Multi-Focus Dish |
| | 296 | |
| Coverage and Antenna Pointing Maps for North America |
| | 297 | |
| Finding the Satellites and Aligning the Antenna |
| | 302 | |
| Index | | 309 | |
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