Introduction to Cable TV (CATV)

Introduction to Cable TV (CATV)
Author: Lawrence Harte
Publisher: Discovernet
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-03-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781932813180

This book explains the functions and operation of cable television (CATV) systems, TV technologies including MPEG, DOCSIS cable modems, and distribution systems. It covers CATV services including advertising, tCommerce, home networking with DLNA, and how it is combining with Internet TV using HbbTV.

Cable Visions

Cable Visions
Author: Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0814799493

Looks beyond broadcasting's mainstream, toward cable's alternatives, to critically consider the capacity of commercial media to serve the public interest. This work offers an overview of the industry's history and regulatory trends, case studies of cable newcomers aimed at niche markets, and analyses of programming forms introduced by cable TV.

Modern Cable Television Technology

Modern Cable Television Technology
Author: David Large
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1093
Release: 2004-01-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080511937

Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad range of communication services. It provides in-depth coverage of high speed data transmission, home networking, IP-based voice, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing, new video compression techniques, integrated voice/video/data transport, and much more. Intended as a day-to-day reference for cable engineers, this book illuminates all the technologies involved in building and maintaining a cable system. But it's also a great study guide for candidates for SCTE certification, and its careful explanations will benefit any technician whose work involves connecting to a cable system or building products that consume cable services. - Written by four of the most highly-esteemed cable engineers in the industry with a wealth of experience in cable, consumer electronics, and telecommunications - All new material on digital technologies, new practices for delivering high speed data, home networking, IP-based voice technology, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), new video compression techniques, and integrated voice/video/data transport - Covers the latest on emerging digital standards for voice, data, video, and multimedia - Presents distribution systems, from drops through fiber optics, an covers everything from basic principles to network architectures

Blue Skies

Blue Skies
Author: Patrick Parsons
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2008-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1592137067

Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.

Broadband Cable Access Networks

Broadband Cable Access Networks
Author: David Large
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2008-11-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080922147

Broadband Cable Access Networks focuses on broadband distribution and systems architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the reader to do their own design, improvement, and troubleshooting work. The objective is to enhance the skill sets of a large population that designs and builds broadband cable plants, as well as those maintaining and troubleshooting it. A large cross-section of technical personnel who need to learn these skills design, maintain, and service HFC systems from signal creation through transmission to reception and processing at the customer end point. In addition, data/voice and video specialists need to master and reference the basics of HFC design and distribution before contending with the intricacies of their own unique services. This book serves as an essential reference to all cable engineers—those who specifically design and maintain the HFC distribution plant as well as those primarily concerned with data/voice technology as well as video technology. - Concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the user to do his own design, improvement, and trouble-shooting work. - Prepares cable engineers and technicians to work with assurance as they face the latest developments and future directions. - Concise and tightly focused, allowing readers to easily find answers to questions about an idea or concept they are developing in this area.

Digital and Analog Fiber Optic Communications for CATV and FTTx Applications

Digital and Analog Fiber Optic Communications for CATV and FTTx Applications
Author: Avigdor Brillant
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 1092
Release: 2008
Genre: Cable television
ISBN: 081946757X

This book is intended to provide a step-by-step guide to all design aspects and tradeoffs from theory to application for fiber-optics transceiver electronics. Presenting a compendium of information in a structured way, this book enables the engineer to develop a methodical design approach, a deep understanding of specifications parameters and the reasons behind them, as well as their effects and consequences on system performance, which are essential for proper component design. Further, a fundamental understanding of RF, digital circuit design, and linear and nonlinear phenomena is important in order to achieve the desired performance levels. Becoming familiar with solid-state devices and passives used to build optical receivers and transmitters is also important so one can effectively overcome design limitations.

The Wired Nation

The Wired Nation
Author: Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1972
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Broadcasters’ Rights in the Digital Era

Broadcasters’ Rights in the Digital Era
Author: M. Sakthivel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004419152

In Broadcasters’ Rights in the Digital Era, Sakthivel provides a cogent understanding into a hitherto unchartered territory on the applicability of copyright law on the live streaming of 'entertainment content'- an emerging medium of communication. The book examines in exhaustive breadth the scope of broadcasters' neighbouring rights under the copyright regime in the light of technological advancements vis-à-vis authors' right and explores the experiences of EU & USA and then suggests suitable changes to the Indian Copyright regime. Sakthivel employs technological analysis and existence of differential market for different mediums to substantiate the relationship of live streaming and the copyright regime.