Broadband Entertainment: Digital Audio, Video and Gaming in Your Home (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: entertainment server, broadband entertainment, video service provider, Surround Sound, United States, Super Audio (more...)

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Product Description
Broadband Entertainment explores the convergence of the information age with the entertainment industry. Advanced technology and digital entertainment are converging in living rooms around the world to provide commercial-free access to every movie ever made, every song ever sung and every game ever played. The entertainment server is the new device that will deliver digital television, broadband Internet access and FM stereo throughout the home.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: All Digital, Inc.; 1 edition (November 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974141011
• ISBN-13: 978-0974141015
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,146,707 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting and informative book, February 9, 2004

By	L. Baxter - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Broadband Entertainment is an excellent book. It gives a thorough explanation of both the trends in home entertainment and the digital technology that is making them possible. It is written in a very interesting style and covers material ranging from the generations of entertainment and distribution technology to the politics of broadband access and digital rights management. There are also a lot of interesting tidbits about some of the technical details, such as audio and video coding, capacity of storage technologies, etc. This book is worth the price for its large, informative, full-color illustrations alone.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference, very timely and packed with information, December 10, 2003

By	Kevin Hughes (Hilliard, OH United States) - See all my reviews

I found this book to be extremely packed with many of the details that flood the digital entertainment and gaming world. It is a very useful reference as well as an extremely easy read that itself entertained me while providing clarification on many aspects of the confusing technology in the broadband world. This book can save you literally hundreds of hours that you would spend trying to find this kind of information online and in reference books. It ties all of this together into a comprehensive whole that is very accurate and on the mark.