Digital Television, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Halftitle
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Preface
7. Acknowledgements
8. Introduction
9. 1. Colour television: a review of current standards
   1. 1.1 Monochrome TV basics
   2. 1.2 Black and white compatible colour systems
10. 2. Digitization of video signals
    1. 2.1 Why digitize video signals?
    2. 2.2 Digitization formats
    3. 2.3 Transport problems
11. 3. Source coding: compression of video and audio signals
    1. 3.1 Some general data compression principles
    2. 3.2 Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT)
    3. 3.3 Compression of fixed pictures
    4. 3.4 Compression of moving pictures (MPEG)
    5. 3.5 Compression of audio signals
12. 4. Source multiplexing
    1. 4.1 Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer
    2. 4.2 Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams
13. 5. Scrambling and conditional access
    1. 5.1 Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard
    2. 5.2 Conditional access mechanisms
    3. 5.3 Main conditional access systems
14. 6. Channel coding (forward error correction)
    1. 6.1 Energy dispersal (randomizing)
    2. 6.2 Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding)
    3. 6.3 Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors)
    4. 6.4 Convolutional coding (inner coding)
15. 7. Modulation by digital signals
    1. 7.1 General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals
    2. 7.2 Quadrature modulations
    3. 7.3 Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S)
    4. 7.4 OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T)
    5. 7.5 Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial)
16. 8. Reception of digital TV signals
    1. 8.1 Global view of the transmission/reception process
    2. 8.2 Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD)
17. 9. Middleware and interoperability aspects
    1. 9.1 Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe
    2. 9.2 The open European ‘middlewares’
18. 10. Evolution: state of the art and perspectives
    1. 10.1 Digital terrestrial television
    2. 10.2 Evolution of the set-top box
    3. 10.3 New architectures
19. Appendix A: error detection and correction in digital transmissions
    1. A1.1 An error detecting code: the parity bit
    2. A1.2 Block error correction codes
    3. A1.3 Convolutional coding
20. Appendix B: spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters
21. Appendix C: reception of the digital TV channels of ASTRA and EUTELSAT
22. Appendix D: the main other digital TV systems
    1. D1.1 The DSS system (satellite, USA)
    2. D2.1 The ATSC system (terrestrial, USA)
    3. D3.1 The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan)
23. Appendix E: the IEEE1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus
24. Appendix F: the DiSEqC bus for antenna system control
    1. F1.1 The DiSEqC levels
    2. F2.1 DiSEqC basic principles
    3. F3.1 Different fields of the DiSEqC message
25. Appendix G: the common interface (DVB-CI)
26. Appendix H: example chipset for DVB decoders
27. Glossary of abbreviations, words and expressions
    1. Abbreviations
    2. Words and expressions
28. Bibliography
    1. Books
    2. Official documents (in English)
    3. Some useful Internet addresses
29. Index