This enormous treasury of sparking memories and candid photographs presents a fascinating history of broadcast media, its development during last one hundred years and the engineering facilitating such magical network, in totality.

&Quot;This forward-looking book focuses on interactive television (ITV), and illustrates how it is changing the face of TV broadcasting.

Writing for readers with a background in electronics, some knowledge of analog television, and a basic digital background, Benoit (Philips Semiconductors, France) intends this book as a summary and starting point rather than a handbook for ...

Expertly authored, this book provides you with the latest on video and speech coding techniques coupled with extensive coverage of standards for communication of multimedia signals.

With a focus on changing job tasks and knowledge requirements for professionals, this book enables readers to meet the demands of designing, implementing, and supporting end-to-end IPTV systems.

This book presents the results of the fourth in a well established series of international workshops on Multimedia organized by the EUROGRAPHICS Association, and held from May 28 to 30, 1996, in Rostock, Germany.