Transmission Technologies for Cable Television 4K Broadcasting

Digital Television Transmission and Broadband Network Technologies

Digital television (DTV) network is medium that transports moving images, in the form of digital video signal and accompanying sound, in the form of digital audio signal, from one point to another. However, the system may include data and control signals and hence may be thought of as a multimedia system. Various network technologies find use in the digital television production and transmissio...

Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB)

A report on the digital terrestrial television broadcasting system (ISDB-T: Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial) was presented to the Minister of Post and Telecommunication by the Telecommunications Technology Council (TTC) in May 1999 after the largescale field trials conducted by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). At the ITU-R Study Group 11 Meeting in...

Java Technologies in Broadcasting

The Internet, as a leading communication system, was – up to a few years ago – the only and ultimate channel for providing sophisticated data information services. Several internet technologies were developed and tested, leading to the introduction of new techniques for distributing data. Web technologies (e.g. Java, TCP/IP, XML and HTML) became the de-facto solutions for distributing data over...

Advertising Revenue Optimization in Live Television Broadcasting

In live broadcasting, the break lengths available for commercials may not always be fixed and known ex ante (e.g., strategic and injury time-outs are of variable duration in live sport transmissions). Because advertising represents a significant share of the broadcasters’ revenue, broadcasters actively manage that revenue by jointly optimizing their advertising sales and scheduling policies. We...

Competition, Regulation, and Performance in Television Broadcasting