Television Receiver

Description of interference into a digital terrestrial television receiver

THE DIFFERENT TELEVISioN STANDARDS CONSIDERED FROM THE _POINT OF VIEW OF RECEIVER DESIGN

The diversity of European television standards has been referred to more than once in this Review. From. the point of view of th~se concerned with T. V. transmission, the most important consequence of this lack of uniformity is that it necessitates the use of "line converters" in any international exchange of programmes. The receiver designer, on the other hand, is concerned with the demand cre...

A Software 8 - VSB Receiver for ATSC Digital Television by Chia

This thesis presents the design and evaluation of a software 8-VSB receiver for ATSC digital television (DTV). Based on an unique software radio architecture, employing wideband digitization and a conventional workstation, this receiver uses novel software algorithms to achieve carrier and timing synchronization. Carrier and timing synchronization are typically accomplished with analog techniqu...

Modeling Television Schedules for Television Stream Structuring

TV stream structuring is very important for huge archives holders like the French National Institute, the BBC or the RAI, because it is the first necessary step to describe the various telecasts broadcast on various channels. It is also necessary for television ratings in order to isolate the telecasts that must be rated. One can think this structuring is a simple alignment of the TV guides on ...

Customized television: standards compliant advanced digital television

This correspondence describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user’s or group of user’s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement suc...