Fifth Edition! What doesn’t have a video component nowadays? IPods, cell phones, computers, HDTVs, cable/IPTV/satellite set-top boxes, Blu-ray players – they all have video. Any engineer involved in designing, manufacturing, or testing video electronics needs this book! Each edition of Video Demystified has sold thousands of copies and answered many questions for electrical engineers across the globe. This fifth edition keeps the engineer up-to-date with next-generation digital video standards – development of new audio and video codecs, along with the all the latest information on HDTV, HDMI and IPTV (TV over the Internet). All broadcast, cable, and satellite standards are being updated to reflect these new codecs and specifications. This practical reference covers the essentials of analog and digital video:
Introduction to Video
Color Spaces
Analog Video Formats and Interfaces
Digital Video Formats and Interfaces
Video Processing
NTSC/PAL/SECAM Overview, VBI data
NTSC/PAL Encoding and Decoding
H.261 and H.263
DV
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4 and H.264
ATSC Digital Television
OpenCable Digital Television
DVB Digital Television
ISDB Digital Television
IPTV
944 pages, over 400 illustrations.
A PDF version is also available.
Ordering Information
Title: Video Demystified, Fifth Edition
Author: Keith Jack
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 978-0-7506-8395-1
