This practical guide offers all important digital television, sound radio, and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. It provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition explains the basics of essential topics like analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains.

The fourth edition addresses many new developments and features of digital broadcasting. Especially it includes Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV), 4K, HEVC / H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding), DVB-T2 measurement techniques and practice, DOCSIS 3.1, DVB - S2X, and 3DTV, as well as VHF-FM radio, HDMI, terrestrial transmitters, and stations.

In the center of the treatments are always measuring techniques and of measuring practice for each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. The book is directed primarily at the specialist working in the field, on transmitters and transmission equipment, network planning, studio technology, playout centers and multiplex center technology and in the development departments for entertainment electronics or TV test engineering. Since the entire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either. 

Walter Fischer, Dipl.Ing.(FH), born 2.6.1961, Studies of Electrical Engineering 1979-83, diploma thesis in technique of TV measurement at Prof. Mäusl, FH München. Since 1985 employed at Rohde&Schwarz Munich. Until 1999 in the area of development of technique of TV measurement. Since 1999 coach at Rohde&Schwarz Training Center Munich for the sector analog and digital technique of TV. Numerous seminars in the field of DVB world wide (more than 3000 participants).

Preface to the Fourth Edition.- Introduction.- Analog Television.- The MPEG-2 Data Stream.- Digital Videosignal according to ITU-BT.R601 (CCIR601).- Video Signal Formats for HDTV and UHDTV.- Transformations to and from the Frequency Domain.- Video Coding (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, HEVC).- Audio Coding.- Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB.- Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB.- Physical AV Interface Signals.- Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream.- Picture Qualtity Analysis of Digital TV Signals.- Basic Principles of Digital Modulation.- Transmitting Digital TV Signals by Satellite DVB-S/S2/S2X.- DVB-S/S2 Measuring Technology.- Broadband Cable Transmission According to DVB-C.- Broadband Cable Transmission According to ITU-T J83B (US) .- Measuring Digital TV Signals in the Broadband Cable.- Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (CODFM) .- Terrestrial Transmission of Digital TV Signals (DVB-T) .- Measuring DVB-T Signals.- DVB-H/DVB-SH Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds.- Digital terrestrial TV according to North American ATSC.- ATSC/8VSB Measurements.- Digital Terrestrial TV according to ISDB-T.- Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB/DAB+.- DVB Dataservices MHP and SSU.- T-DMB.- IPTV Television over the Internet.- DRM Digital Radio Mondiale.- Single-Frequency Networks in DVB-T in Practice.- Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting DTMB (China) .- DOCSIS Data over Cable System Interface Specification.- Display Technologies.- The New Generation of DVB Standards.- Baseband Signals for DVB-x2.- DVB-T2.- DVB-C2.- DVB-T2 Measurement Technology.- VHF FM Radio.- Other Transmission Standards.- Digital Dividend.- 3DTV-Three-Dimensional Television.- Broadcast over Internet, HbbTV, Streaming, OTT.- Studio, Playout, Headend and Distribution Network.- Terrestrial Broadcast Transmitters and Transmitter Stations.- ATSC3.0.- LTE/5G-based Broadcast.- Outlook.- Bibliography.- Definition of Terms.- Channel Tables.- Index.