This practical guide offers all important digital television, sound radio, and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. It provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition explains the basics of essential topics like analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains.

The fourth edition addresses many new developments and features of digital broadcasting. Especially it includes Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV), 4K, HEVC / H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding), DVB-T2 measurement techniques and practice, DOCSIS 3.1, DVB - S2X, and 3DTV, as well as VHF-FM radio, HDMI, terrestrial transmitters, and stations.

In the center of the treatments are always measuring techniques and of measuring practice for each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. The book is directed primarily at the specialist working in the field, on transmitters and transmission equipment, network planning, studio technology, playout centers and multiplex center technology and in the development departments for entertainment electronics or TV test engineering. Since the entire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Analog Television

3 The MPEG Data Stream

4 Digital Video Signal According to ITU-BT.R.601 (CCIR 601)

5 Video Signal Formats for HDTV and UHDTV

6 Transforms to and from the Frequency Domain

7 Video Coding (M PEG-2, MPEG-4/AVC, HEVC)

8 Audio Coding

9 Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB

10 Physical AV Interface Signals

11 Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream

12 Picture Quality Analysis of Digital TV Signals

13 Basic Principles of Digital Modulation

14 Transmitting Digital Television Signals by Satellite - DVB-S/S2/S2x

15 DVB-S/S2 Measuring Technology

16 Broadband Cable Transmission According to DVB-C

17 Broadband Cable Transmission According to ITU-T J83B (US)

18 Measuring Digital TV Signals in the Broadband Cable

19 Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM)

20 Terrestrial Transmission of Digital Television Signals (DVB-T)

21 Measuring DVB-T Signals

22 DVB-H/DVB-SH - Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds

23 Digital Terrestrial TV to North American ATSC Standard

24 ATSC/8VSB Measurements

25 Digital Terrestrial Television according to ISDB-T

26 Digital Audio Broadcasting - DAB/DAB+

27 DVB Data Services: MHP and SSU

28 T-DMB

29 IPTV - Television over the Internet

30 DRM - Digital Radio Mondiale

31 Single-Frequency Networks in DVB-T in Practice

32 DTMB

33 DOCSIS - Data over Cable Service Interface Specification

34 Display Technologies

35 The New Generation of DVB Standards

36 Baseband Signals for DVB-x2

37 DVB-T2

38 DVB-C2

39 DVB-T2 Measurement Technology

40 VHF FM Radio

41 Other Transmission Standards

42 Digital Dividend

43 3DTV - Three-Dimensional Television

44 Broadcast over Internet, HbbTV, OTT, Streaming

45 Studio, Playout, Headend and Distribution Network

46 Terrestrial Broadcasting Transmitters and Transmitter Stations

47 ATSC3.0

48 LTE/5G-Based Broadcast

49 Outlook

About the Author

Walter Fischer, Dipl.Ing.(FH), born 2.6.1961, Studies of Electrical Engineering 1979-83, diploma thesis in technique of TV measurement at Prof. Mäusl, FH München. Since 1985 employed at Rohde&Schwarz Munich. Until 1999 in the area of development of technique of TV measurement. Since 1999 coach at Rohde&Schwarz Training Center Munich for the sector analog and digital technique of TV. Numerous seminars in the field of DVB world wide (more than 3000 participants).