Digital Television At Home: Satellite, Cable And Over-The-Air: Using, Controlling And Understanding Digital Tv Technologies [Paperback]

Gregory Dudek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 17, 2008

How digital television works, and how to get the most out of it. This book is basic enough so that no previous background is needed. The most detailed chapters, however, provide enough detail to satisfy even a technically sophisticated audience. In accessible language, it describes how to upgrade an existing home entertainment system to digital television, how satellite and cable TV works, and it describes the core technologies involved. It also looks closely at the DVB and ATSC video protocols and how they are used in satellite, cable and over-the-air TV broadcasting. It even provides enough detail for the computer hobbyist or home theater specialist to get involved in building or modifying a digital video system of his or her own.

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About the Author

Gregory Dudek is a professor of computer science and author of over 150 scientific publications. He works on video systems, robotics, robot vision, and artificial intelligence.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: y1d books (December 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 098099151X
• ISBN-13: 978-0980991512
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,220,204 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gregory Dudek was born in Montreal Canada. His parents were a distinguished professor of psychology and one of Canada's most famous poets and literary critics. Dudek has published over 170 research papers on subjects including visual object description and recognition, robotic navigation and map construction, distributed system design and biological perception. This includes a book entitled "Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics" co-authored with Michael Jenkin and published by Cambridge University Press. He has chaired and been otherwise involved in numerous national and international conferences and professional activities concerned with Robotics, Machine Sensing and Computer Vision. He research interests include perception for mobile robotics, navigation and position estimation, environment and shape modelling, computational vision and collaborative filtering.

Gregory Dudek is a Professor with the School of Computer Science and a member of the McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) and an Associate member of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at McGill University.He is the Director of the McGill School of Computer Science. He is the former Director of McGill's Research Center for Intelligent Machines, a 25 year old inter-faculty research facility. He was recently awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Award for Research Excellence and also for Service to the Research Community. He has spent time in various capacities at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (now PARC), Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto (where he did his PhD). . He directs the McGill Mobile Robotics Laboratory.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand with lots of information, August 18, 2008

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Ioannis Rekleitis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Television At Home: Satellite, Cable And Over-The-Air: Using, Controlling And Understanding Digital Tv Technologies. (Paperback)

This is a great book that comes to cover a void between too technical books that are addressed to experts and too simple books that have almost zero content. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone that is curious about their home entertainment unit, and also to anyone that is interested in improving their experience using all the available options.

All in all a great book

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative and a great read, August 8, 2008

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BuggySaq - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Television At Home: Satellite, Cable And Over-The-Air: Using, Controlling And Understanding Digital Tv Technologies. (Paperback)

Having no background on TV technology whatsoever, I found this book not only very informative, but also surprisingly easy to read, even with my complete lack of knowledge on the field. It's a must read for anyone who wants to know the finer details of television technology. With the mandatory change to digital TV less than six months away in North America, this book is now doubly useful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book of this type I've ever seen, June 7, 2008

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This review is from: Digital Television At Home: Satellite, Cable And Over-The-Air: Using, Controlling And Understanding Digital Tv Technologies. (Paperback)

It's comprehensive and written so that even someone new to the field can understand. The author clearly has a passion for the subject which he wants to share with his readers.

Given that we're all switching to digital TV in the next few years, this book should be considered a "must read" for anyone who wants to feel comfortable with all the new technologies available to them.