O'Leary S. Understanding Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting

Artech House, 2000, 292 p.
ISBN: 1-58053-462-7
This comprehensive text provides information on developments in digital broadcasting, encoding practices, standards and systems. It emphasizes the transmission aspects of Digital Television (DTV), including modulators and demodulators, the Digital Broadcasting standard for terrestrial Television (DVBT), and the networks used to distribute and broadcast DTV signals.
This book is intended for use by engineers, technicians, students, and anyone interested in acquiring a working knowledge of the principles behind digital television and digital radio broadcasting. It assumes that the reader already has some knowledge of modern color television engineering.
It treats in detail the European digital television standards, however, as it describes the universally accepted digital encoding practices, it will have general appeal. It also details the digital broadcasting systems adopted by the United States and other countries.