Multimedia and Communications Technology

by SteveHeath (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $111.26

  Multimedia and Communications Technology is a practical explanation of the technologies that bring together existing products such as the PC, telephone and television. It is precisely this revolution that the book addresses - offering an up to date technical overview of developments in PC technology, video and audio compression, telecommunications and many other disciplines.
  
  Written as a series of tutorials, the book starts with the fundamental techniques of digital audio and video, moving on to compression techniques such as JPEG and MPEG. The delivery systems for multimedia are then covered, starting with the CD and on to telephones, local and wide area networks and ATM and ASDL. The final chapters describe how these technologies are brought together in some key applications:
  
  * video conferencing
  * digital video broadcasting
  * video on demand
  * interactive television
  
  Steve Heath is responsible for European Strategy and Technology Development at Motorola. He has had many years experience in computer design and has presented papers on multimedia technology at international conferences. He is a well known technical writer and has written fourteen other books for Focal Press, Newnes and Butterworth-Heinemann.
  
  

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $4.19

  For many people the definition of multimedia is one of a PC playing games or an encyclopedia on CD-ROM. However these applications for multimedia are only half the picture. in this book Steve Heath explains how multimedia technology is bringing together several existing products such as the PC, telephone and television and combining them in such a way that he borders and definitions that make television recogniseable as such will rapidly disappear.
  
  
  Organised as a set of tutorials, the book explains in a simple manner the fundamental techniques of: * digital audio and video * JPEG and MPEG * delivery systems for multimedia: CD's, LANs and the new ATM and ASDL technologies * how these key technologies are brought together Also covered are: * new interfaces for the multimedia PC - how TAPI and TSPI are bringing PCs and telephone together * techniques of delivering MPEG compressed digital television through satellite, cable and television networks * video on demand and interactive television * video conferencing and the techniques behind the latest H.320 based video phones and conference systems
  
  Steve Heath has many years experience in computer design with Motorola and is involved in defining software architecture for a joint Motorola/BT communications and video conferencing development to run under the Windows environment. He has presented several papers at international conferences on multimedia and has written seven other books for Butterworth-Heinemann: VMEbus: a practical companion; Newnes UNIX Pocket Book; Microprocessor architectures: RISC, CISC and DSP; Effective PC Networking; Power PC: a practical companion; The PowerPC Programming Pocket Book; The PC and M