Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Designs Systems And Operation

1 History Of The Development Of Digital Transmission Techniques In Tv Broadcasting.- 1.1 Growth In The Proportion Of Digital Signal Transmission In Television Engineering.- 1.2 Beginnings Of Digital Hdtv In The United States.- 1.3 Research Projects And Pilot Developments In Europe.- 1.4 Specification By The European Dvb Project.- 2 Present State Of The Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Service.- 2.1 Programme Feeds To The Transmitting Stations.- A) Microwave And Cable.- B) Broadcast Satellites.- 2.2 Signal Transmission Technology.- A) Overview.- B) Dual-sound Carrier Method.- C) Nicam Method.- D) The Data Line Technology.- 2.3 Television Transmitter Engineering.- A) Overview.- B) 20-kw Uhf Tv Transmitter With Tetrode.- C) 10-kw Solid-state Uhf Transmitter.- D) Further Development In Tv Amplifier Technology.- 2.4 Basic Measuring And Monitoring Methods.- A) Automatic Frame Measuring Technique.- B) Test Line Monitoring Technique.- C) Measurement Parameters In The Dual-sound Carrier Method.- D) Nicam Measuring Method.- 2.5 Planning Of Coverage.- A) Antenna Technology.- B) Planning Guidelines.- 3 Basic Principles Of Digital Television Transmission.- 3.1 Video Coding.- 3.2 Audio Coding.- 3.3 Mpeg-2 Transport Stream.- 3.4 Channel Coding And Ofdm Methods.- 3.5 Single-frequency Network.- 4 Basic Parameters Of The Specification For The Digital Terrestrial Tv Transmission.- 4.1 Channel Coding.- 4.2 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation.- 4.3 Basic Changes Compared With The Present Broadcasting Service.- A) Principle Of The Dvb Transmitter And Receiver.- B) Differences In The Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Service.- 5 Programme Feeds To The Digital Terrestrial Transmitting Stations.- 5.1 Mpeg-2 Signal Feed.- A) Satellite Uplink.- B) Satellite Downlink Reception At The Terrestrial Transmitting Station.- C) Programme Transfer With The Baseband Coding.- 5.2 Programme Feed Alternatives.- 5.3 Pragmatic Approaches To An Implementation.- A) Basic System Of The Established Dsr Method.- B