2008 Digital Media Technologies - Digital TV, Mobile TV, IPTV, MPEG

Table of Contents

1. Trends and Frequencies

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Analogue versus digital broadcasting
  • 1.2.1 Multi-channel and multi-purpose
  • 1.2.2 Dynamic bandwidth allocation
  • 1.2.3 Quality trade-offs
  • 1.2.4 Storage and replay
  • 1.2.5 Flexibility of playback
  • 1.2.6 Encryption and conditional access
  • 1.2.7 User control and diversity
  • 1.2.8 Digital Rights Management (DRM)
  • 1.2.9 Interactivity and E-Commerce
  • 1.2.10 Competition with increased numbers of channels
  • 1.2.11 Integration with Internet delivery
  • 1.2.12 Interactivity and datacasting
  • 1.2.13 Single frequency networks (SFN)
  • 1.2.14 Satellite and terrestrial
  • 1.2.15 Fixed and mobile
• 1.3 Frequency, wavelength and propagation
  • 1.3.1 Electromagnetic radiation
  • 1.3.2 Amplitude and frequency modulation
  • 1.3.3 Health aspects of electromagnetic radiation
  • 1.3.4 Propagation and antennae
• 1.4 Analogue TV and radio
  • 1.4.1 NTSC and PAL analogue TV
  • 1.4.2 Propagation and business models

2. Television - DVB

• 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Distinctions between television, sound and mobile broadcasting
  • 2.1.2 ITU recommendations
  • 2.1.3 Encoding, modulation and transmission subsystems
• 2.2 Digital television broadcasting
  • 2.2.1 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
  • 2.2.2 DVB-T
  • 2.2.3 DVB-T2
  • 2.2.4 DVB-S
  • 2.2.5 DVB-S2

3. Television - ATSC, ISDB and Middleware

• 3.1 ISDB
  • 3.1.1 ISDB - OFDM in Japan
  • 3.1.2 ISDB-T in Brazil
  • 3.1.3 B-CAS for conditional access
  • 3.1.4 Band Segmented Transmission (BST)
  • 3.1.5 Partial reception and loss of frequency diversity
  • 3.1.6 Hierarchical transmission
  • 3.1.7 IDSB-Tsb (Sound Broadcasting)
  • 3.1.8 1seg
• 3.2 Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) - USA
  • 3.2.1 8-VSB Vestigial Sideband
  • 3.2.2 8-VSB challenged by Sinclair Broadcast Group
  • 3.2.3 Single frequency networks not possible
  • 3.2.4 Enhanced E8-VSB
  • 3.2.5 Failure of regulation to protect the interests of the public
• 3.3 DVD, HDTV and IPTV
  • 3.3.1 High Definition TV (HDTV)
  • 3.3.2 Internet Protocol TV (IPTV)
  • 3.3.3 Personal Video Recorders (PVRs)
  • 3.3.4 Commercial and strategic factors in standardisation
  • 3.3.5 Lossy compression techniques
  • 3.3.6 Data rates for sound and video
  • 3.3.7 Video compression
• 3.4 Digital TV Middleware
  • 3.4.1 DVB Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)
  • 3.4.2 IP Datacasting - DVB-IPDC

4. Sound and Narrowband

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Narrowband Digital Audio Broadcasting
  • 4.2.1 FM RDS
  • 4.2.2 FM DirectBand
  • 4.2.3 Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM)
  • 4.2.4 In-Band-On-Channel (IBOC) HD Radio
• 4.3 Digital Audio/Multimedia Broadcasting (DAB/DMB)
  • 4.3.1 Eureka 147
  • 4.3.2 Multiple transmitters for DAB and DTTB
  • 4.3.3 DAB+
  • 4.3.4 Commercial and administrative differences
• 4.4 Satellite systems
  • 4.4.1 WorldSpace
  • 4.4.2 Sirius
  • 4.4.3 XM

5. Mobile TV

• 5.1 Broadcasting to handheld devices
  • 5.1.1 3G Networks unsuitable
  • 5.1.2 Mobile broadcasting requirements
  • 5.1.3 Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H)
  • 5.1.4 Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB)
  • 5.1.5 MobaHo (MBSAT) CDM direct broadcast satellite
  • 5.1.6 South Korean S-DMB
  • 5.1.7 MediaFLO
  • 5.1.8 Mobile WiMAX 802.16e
• 5.2 Comparing the major technologies
  • 5.2.1 T-DMB versus DVB-H and MediaFLO
  • 5.2.2 Frequency diversity
  • 5.2.3 Frequency domain power reduction
  • 5.2.4 Time domain power reduction
  • 5.2.5 Time Diversity versus Tune-in Time
  • 5.2.6 Channels per Megahertz

6. Audio Visual Coding - MPEG

• 6.1 MPEG 1 and MP3
  • 6.1.1 Introduction
  • 6.1.2 Data compression and ‘coding'
  • 6.1.3 MPEG-1
  • 6.1.4 MPEG-1 Audio Layers I and II
  • 6.1.5 MPEG-I Audio Layer III (MP3)
  • 6.1.6 Other lossy audio compression standards
• 6.2 MPEG 2 AAC and Video
  • 6.2.1 Introduction
  • 6.2.2 MPEG-2 Transport Stream
  • 6.2.3 MPEG-2 audio compression
  • 6.2.4 MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
  • 6.2.5 MPEG-4 Parametric Audio Coding - HILN
  • 6.2.6 MPEG-2 video compression
• 6.3 MPEG 4 video and VRML
  • 6.3.1 Introduction
  • 6.3.2 MPEG-4 video and multimedia compression
  • 6.3.3 Advanced Video Coding - H. 264/AVC
  • 6.3.4 Interactive and VRML elements
  • 6.3.5 MPEG-7 metadata
  • 6.3.6 MPEG-21 Digital Rights Management

7. Glossary of Abbreviations