Everything you need to know about the coming digital interactive TV revolution! Theres a revolution coming to your TV: a digital, interactive, Internet-enabled revolution that will make possible services youve never imagined! The next TV revolution comes with new technologies, new standards, new architectures, and new business paradigms. Finally, theres a single source for up-to-the-minute insight into every aspect of next-generation digital TV: The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV! From MPEG-4 to middleware, webcasting to Java OS, Gerard ODriscoll covers the state-of-the-art, comparing the strategies and technologies-and cutting through the hype. Coverage includes all this, and more: * Digital TV building blocks: compression, encoding, modulation, conditional access, transmission, and management * Advanced digital set-tops: features, components, installation, and troubleshooting * Set-top operating systems: JavaOS, Windows CE, David OS-9, PowerTV, VxWorks, pSOS+, Linux, and more * Internet-based TV: set-top Web browsing, webcasting, email, online chat, broadband applications, video on demand, parental controls, and more * Electronic program guides (EPGs)

The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV

Computers & Technology

O'Driscoll, Gerard

Networking & Cloud Computing

Pearson P T R

Topics include home networking benefits: convenience, times savings, entertainment, and security, how home networks work, the competition, phoneline networks, wireless networks, home control and automation systems, connecting to the Internet, home networking middleware and APIs, and much more. Softcover.

Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies, The

Certification

Prentice Hall PTR

With a focus on changing job tasks and knowledge requirements for professionals, this book enables readers to meet the demands of designing, implementing, and supporting end-to-end IPTV systems. Additionally, it examines IPTV technical subjects that are not included in any other single reference to date: Quality of Experience (QoE), techniques for speeding up IPTV channel changing times, IPTV CD software architecture, Whole Home Media Networking (WHMN), IP-based high-definition TV, interactive IPTV applications, and the daily management of IPTV networks.

Next Generation IPTV Services and Technologies

Computer Science

Wiley-Interscience

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Independently published

HTI+ Certification Concepts & Practice Lab Guide: HT0-101/HT0-102 2004 Exam Prep

Marcraft International

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