Television Receivers

All-the-answers guide to television receivers For the best handle on the brave new world of 21st century TV receiver design, specification, installation, and maintenance, look to Television Receivers, from leading expert Jerry Whitaker. This insider's guide explains what's new in receivers, making a complex subject manageable, accessible, and understandable. With its focus on changes and advances in TV receiver technology, this primer is a professional essential, with enough coverage of technological fundamentals to give you solid footing in new areas so you can:

• Find needed details on DTV (digital) and analog receiver systems
• Confidently plan and operate any new receiver type
• Develop innovations for display, storage, and tuner components
• Implement and service cable and satellite receiver equipment
• Apply examples of Internet broadcast receiver and PC-based DTV systems
• Build expertise in interactive videoconferencing and other business-related applications
• Answer questions on technologies such as decoder chips
• Understand CRT, projection, and flat panel display devices
• Get examples of necessary mathematics, fully explained with practical examples, diagrams, and schematics.

BEST GUIDE FOR ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS
Television Receivers—from leading expert Jerry Whitaker—is the best handle you can find on the brave new world of 21st century TV receiver design, specification, installation, and maintenance.
TV receivers don't come from a cookie cutter anymore. As audio did decades ago, TV systems are morphing into a range of components to handle a myriad of new and developing technical options.
This insider's guide tackles what's new in receivers and makes it manageable, accessible, and understandable. With its focus on changes and advances in TV receiver technology, this primer is a professional essential. Yet there's also enough coverage of technological fundamentals to give you solid footing in new areas.

BEST CHOICE FOR PROFESSIONAL ANSWERS! Offering solid value for your career, TELEVISION RECEIVERS comes fully loaded. It's packed with examples, diagrams, schematics, and the data you need to handle every aspect of the newest systems and devices. For a broad perspective on directions and trends, and a one-stop source of essential on-the-job answers, TELEVISION RECEIVERS is invaluable.

The most complete technical reference to this expanding field, TELEVISION RECEIVERS can help you—

• Find needed details on DTV (digital) and analog receiver systems
• Confidently plan and operate any new receiver type
• Develop innovations for display, storage, and tuner components
• Implement and service cable and satellite receiver equipment
• Apply examples of PC-based DTV systems
• Plan and develop consumer video and networking applications
• Answer questions on technologies, such as decoder chips
• Get a handle on CRT, projection, and flat panel display devices
• Find examples of necessary mathematics, fully explained with practical examples

Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Chapter 2: Propagation
• Chapter 3: Frequency Sources and References
• Chapter 4: Receiver Characteristics
• Chapter 5: The Radio Channel
• Chapter 6: Low Power Amplifiers
• Chapter 7: Analog/Digital Signal Conversion
• Chapter 8: Digital Filters
• Chapter 9: Digital Modulation
• Chapter 10: DSP Devices and Systems
• Chapter 11: Adaptive Receiver Processing
• Chapter 12: Television Reception Principles
• Chapter 13: ATSC DTV Receiver Systems
• Chapter 14: Consumer Video and Networking Issues
• Chapter 15: Cable Television Systems 279
• Chapter 16: Satellite Delivery Systems
• Chapter 17: Receiver Antenna Systems
• Chapter 18: Content Distribution
• Chapter 19: Interactive Television
• Chapter 20: CRT Display Devices
• Chapter 21: Projection Display Systems
• Chapter 22: Flat Panel Displays
• Chapter 23: Measurement of Color Displays
• Chapter 24: Application of the Zone Plate Signal
• Chapter 25: Picture Quality Measurement
• List of Figures and Tables