About the Book
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
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Table of 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
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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
References Cited in this Book
Subject Index
Appendix: Television/Video Standards
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