All-the-answers guide to television receivers!

For the best handle on the brave new world of 21st century TV receiver design, specification, installation, and maintenance, look to Television Receivers, from leading expert Jerry Whitaker.

This insider's guide explains what's new in receivers, making a complex subject manageable, accessible, and understandable. With its focus on changes and advances in TV receiver technology, this primer is a professional essential, with enough coverage of technological fundamentals to give you solid footing in new areas so you can:

• Find needed details on DTV (digital) and analog receiver systems
• Confidently plan and operate any new receiver type
• Develop innovations for display, storage, and tuner components
• Implement and service cable and satellite receiver equipment
• Apply examples of Internet broadcast receiver and PC-based DTV systems
• Build expertise in interactive videoconferencing and other business-related applications
• Answer questions on technologies such as decoder chips
• Understand CRT, projection, and flat panel display devices
• Get examples of necessary mathematics, fully explained with practical examples, diagrams, and schematics

Contents

1. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
2. Propagation
3. Frequency Sources and References
4. Receiver Characteristics
5. The Radio Channel
6. Low Power Amplifiers
7. Analog/Digital Signal Conversion
8. Digital Filters
9. Digital Modulation
10. DSP Devices and Systems
11. Adaptive Receiver Processing
12. Television Reception Principles
13. ATSC DTV Receiver Systems
14. Consumer Video and Networking Issues
15. Cable Television Systems 279
16. Satellite Delivery Systems
17. Receiver Antenna Systems
18. Content Distribution
19. Interactive Television
20. CRT Display Devices
21. Projection Display Systems
22. Flat Panel Displays
23. Measurement of Color Displays
24. Application of the Zone Plate Signal
25. Picture Quality Measurement

Index

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