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Silvana, Thiago, Raphael and Marcella

Digital television is a multibillion-dollar industry with commercial systems now being deployed worldwide. In this concise yet detailed guide, you will learn about the standards that apply to fixed-line and mobile digital television, as well as the underlying principles involved, such as signal analysis, modulation techniques, and source and channel coding.

The digital television standards, including the MPEG family, ATSC, DVB, ISDTV, DTMB, and ISDB, are presented to aid understanding of new systems in the market and reveal the variations between different systems used throughout the world. Discussions of source and channel coding...