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Title Broadcast engineer's reference book / edited by E.P.J. Tozer with specialist contributors
Published Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier/Focal Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 1034 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Section 1: Supporting Technologies and Reference Material -- Chapter 1.1. Quantities and Units -- Chapter 1.2. Engineering Mathematics, Formulas and Calculations -- Chapter 1.3. Analogue and Digital Circuit Theory -- Chapter 1.4. Information Theory and Error Correction -- Chapter 1.5. Coaxial Cable and Optical Fibres -- Chapter 1.6. TCP/IP Networking -- Chapter 1.7. SAN and NAS Technologies -- Chapter 1.8. Telco Technologies -- Chapter 1.9. Colour Displays and Colorimetry -- Section 2: Broadcast Technologies and Standards -- Chapter 2.1. Linear Digital Audio -- Chapter 2.2. Non-linear Audio Systems -- Chapter 2.3. Television Standards and Broadcasting Spectrum -- Chapter 2.4. Colour Encoding and Decoding Systems -- Chapter 2.5. Timecode -- Chapter 2.6. Sound in Syncs -- Chapter 2.7. VBI Data Carriage -- Chapter 2.8. Digital Interfaces for Broadcast Signals -- Chapter 2.9. File Formats for Storage -- Chapter 2.10. HDTV Standards -- Chapter 2.11. MPEG-2 -- Chapter 2.12. DVB Standards -- Chapter 2.13. Data Broadcast -- Chapter 2.14. ATSC Video Audio and PSIP Transmission -- Chapter 2.15. Interactive TV -- Chapter 2.16. Conditional Access, Simulcrypt and Encryption Systems -- Section 3: Broadcast Components -- Chapter 3.1. Sound Origination Equipment -- Chapter 3.2. Lens Systems and Optics -- Chapter 3.3. Optical Sensors -- Chapter 3.4. Studio Cameras and Camcorders -- Chapter 3.5. VTR Technology -- Chapter 3.6. Television Standards Conversion -- Section 4: Studio and Production Systems -- Chapter 4.1. Television Studio Centres -- Chapter 4.2. Studio Cameras and Mountings-Mounts -- Chapter 4.3. Studio Lighting -- Chapter 4.4. Talkback and Communications Systems -- Chapter 4.5. Mixers and Switchers -- Chapter 4.6. Visual Effects Systems -- Chapter 4.7. Editing Systems -- Chapter 4.8. Telecines -- Chapter 4.9. Sound Recording -- Chapter 4.10. Sound Mixing and Control -- Chapter 4.11. Surround Sound -- Chapter 4.12. Working with HDTV Systems -- Chapter 4.13. Routers and Matrices -- Chapter 4.14. Transmission Systems -- Chapter 4.15. Media Asset Management Systems -- Chapter 4.16. Electronic Newsroom Systems -- Section 5: Outside Broadcast Systems and Hardware -- Chapter 5.1. Outside Broadcast Vehicles and Mobile Control Rooms -- Chapter 5.2. Microwave Links for OB and ENG -- Chapter 5.3. Electronic News Gathering and Electronic Field Production -- Chapter 5.4. Power Generators and Electrical Systems for Outside Broadcast -- Chapter 5.5. Battery Systems -- Section 6: Transmitter Systems and Hardware -- Chapter 6.1. Rad
Summary The definitive and current reference source broadcast engineers need!
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Television broadcasting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Television -- Transmitters and transmission -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
Television broadcasting
Television -- Transmitters and transmission
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Tozer, E. P. J. (Edwin Paul J.), 1957-
ISBN 9780080490564
0080490565
9781136024177
1136024174