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Theory behind DTV and HDTV

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Edil

Discussion Starter · Oct 12, 2004

Hi!

I'm looking for more in deep, detailed technical information on how DTV and HDTV works. I search with Google but most of the sites that I saw have the same basic information for the "general" public. If you know of a web page with entry level concepts (beyond what you can read in a Popular Mechanics magazine), of the theory behind DTV and HDTV please let me know. Any kind of entry level information on the design process, filters, decoders, MPEG2 compression and DSP applications, etc. all applied to DTV and HDTV. mmmm... Does random processes apply in this? I guess so, I don't know, to filter noise??? ok that's the general concept that apply to lots of other things... I hope you understand what I'm looking for just let me know.

Thanks!

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John Mason

· #2 · Oct 12, 2004

Charles Poynton's 2003 "Digital Video and HDTV" provides both basic chapters covering HD and many video-related topics as well as quite advanced chapters. Believe there's a web site that outlines each chapter. A number of sources beat the suggested list price. It's nice to have a reference text handy.

One web source, of many on HD, is several papers on HD at Adobe.com. --John

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Morris Jones

· #3 · Oct 12, 2004

If you really want to get into the technical nitty gritty, you can try the Advanced Television Standards Committee web site, http://www.atsc.org , the group that wrote the standards.

Last time I was at NAB (six years ago?) there were textbooks for sale on digital television that looked about the size of my old CRC reference book ...

Mojo

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