Principles of Digital Audio and Video Artech House Telecommunications Library

Arch Luther is one of the most repected authorities in this field, and in this comprehensive book he provides engineers with a firm grounding in digital technology for audio and video and shows how to apply it to various fields, including the digitally interactive Internet. Principles of Digital Audio and Video explains the underlying principles and practical applications of digital A/V, and shows where the technology is likely to take us into the next century.

It provides the fundamentals for learning how to screen and select A/V system components, and how to choose the best design approaches for a particular system. This is a well organized reference which enables a clear understanding of many new and emerging issues relating to analog-digital conversion, video cameras, digital transmission and processing, compression, recording and storage, postproduction, and much more.