IPTV Crash Course,9780072263923

IPTV Crash Course

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780072263923
ISBN10: 007226392X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-12-13
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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Summary

IPTV is the technology used on the wildly popular video iPods now being used by millions Major vendors like SBC, Verizon, Microsoft, and Google are chasing big money in IPTV

Author Biography

Joseph Weber, Ph.D. is director for digital video platforms for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Tom Newberry has more than 12 years of experience in consumer electronics and digital video product development. He is currently an advanced product development manager at Thomson, Inc.

Table of Contents

Intro: The Coming Revolution in Television Services: The Convergence of Internet and Digital Video Technologies

Chapter 1. The Technology of Digital Television

Chapter 2. The Advantages of Being Digital

Chapter 3. The Technology of Internet Protocol Networks

Chapter 4. The IPTV System Model

Chapter 5. IPTV in the Home

Chapter 6. How IPTV Changes the Business of Television

Chapter 7. Copy Protection and DRM

Chapter 8. IPTV Standards Efforts

Chapter 9. The Future: The Same Old TV?

Appendix A: Further Details on Digital Television Technology

Appendix B: Further Details on Video Compression

Appendix C: Digital Channel Change Delays

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