Television drama series are today the most popular format on Chinese TV. The fact that these series largely portray nationalist stories of glorious emperors and courageous officials leaves the impression that they must be propaganda, designed by the Communist Party. This volume …
This book covers channel coding and modulation technologies in DTTB systems from the general concepts to the detailed analysis and implementation.-Covers the Chinese DTTB standard which was announced recently and hasn't been covered in detail -Introduces the SFN network using th…
'Television across Europe' analyzes the factors which have shaped the development of television in the post-war period in Western Europe, and forecasts future issues.
'Television across Europe' analyzes the factors which have shaped the development of television in the post-war period in Western Europe, and forecasts future issues.
America' s First Network TV Censor: The Work of NBC' s Stockton Helffrich is a unique examination of early television censorship, centered around the papers of Stockton Helffrich, the first manager of the censorship department at NBC. Set against the backdrop of postwar America …
How Television Invented New Media adjusts the picture of television culturally while providing a corrective history of new media studies itself. Personal computers, video game systems, even iPods and the Internet built upon and borrowed from television to become viable forms. Sh…
Shanti Kumar's "Gandhi Meets Primetime examines how cultural imaginations of national identity have been transformed by the rapid growth of satellite and able television in postcolonial India. To evaluate the growing influence of foreign and domestic satellite and cable channels…
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John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy. For more than twenty-five years, Malone has dominated the cable television industry, shaping the world of ente…
The following topics are dealt with: content-based advanced video coding; video compression; subband coding; wavelet transform; JPEG2000; JPEG; videoconferencing; H.261; digital storage media; MPEG-1; high-quality moving pictures; MPEG-2; bit rate communication; H.263; MPEG-4 vi…