The Essential Guide to Digital Set-top Boxes and Interactive TV
The Essential Guide to Digital Set-top Boxes and Interactive TV by Gerard O’Driscoll, published by Prentice Hall PTR in 2000, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging digital interactive television landscape. This edition spans 295 pages and is presented in English. The book explores the technological advancements and new standards that are shaping the future of television, offering insights into digital set-top boxes and the various components that enable interactive services.
Readers will find detailed discussions on topics such as digital TV building blocks, advanced set-top features, and operating systems, as well as the implications of Internet-based TV. The guide also covers essential aspects like electronic program guides and network management, making it a valuable resource for professionals in technology and engineering, as well as consumers interested in the evolution of television and data transmission systems.
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Everything you need to know about the coming digital interactive TV revolution!
There’s a revolution coming to your TV: a digital, interactive, Internet-enabled revolution that will make possible services you’ve never imagined! The next TV revolution comes with new technologies, new standards, new architectures, and new business paradigms. Finally, there’s a single source for up-to-the-minute insight into every aspect of next-generation digital TV: The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV!
From MPEG-4 to middleware, webcasting to Java OS, Gerard O’Driscoll covers the state-of-the-art, comparing the strategies and technologies-and cutting through the hype. Coverage includes all this, and more:
- Digital TV building blocks: compression, encoding, modulation, conditional access, transmission, and management
- Advanced digital set-tops: features, components, installation, and troubleshooting
- Set-top operating systems: JavaOS, Windows CE, David OS-9, PowerTV, VxWorks, pSOS+, Linux, and more
- Internet-based TV: set-top Web browsing, webcasting, email, online chat, broadband applications, video on demand, parental controls, and more
- Electronic program guides (EPGs): 21st century TV portals
- Development, server architecture, middleware, network management, smartcards, MPEG-4, and much more
Whether you’re an investor, manager, marketing or PR professional, software developer, or consumer, you need to know where TV is headed, and only one book can show you: The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV!
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