Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces

by Charles Poynton

Rapidly evolving computer and communications technologies have achieved data transmission rates and data storage capacities high enough for digital video. But video involves much more than just pushing bits! Achieving the best possible image quality, accurate color, and smooth motion requires understanding many aspects of image acquisition, coding, processing, and display that are outside the usual realm of computer graphics. At the same time, video system designers are facing new demands to interface with film and computer system that require techniques outside conventional video engineering. Charles Poynton's 1996 book A Technical Introduction to Digital Video became an industry favorite for its succinct, accurate, and accessible treatment of standard definition television (SDTV). In Digital Video and HDTV , Poynton augments that book with coverage of high definition television (HDTV) and compression systems. For more information on HDTV Retail markets, go

With the help of hundreds of high quality technical illustrations, this book presents the following Basic concepts of digitization, sampling, quantization, gamma, and filtering* Principles of color science as applied to image capture and display* Scanning and coding of SDTV and HDTV* Video color luma, chroma (4:2:2 component video, 4 f SC composite video)* Analog NTSC and PAL* Studio systems and interfaces* Compression technology, including M-JPEG and MPEG-2* Broadcast standards and consumer video equipment

Genres: Engineering

736 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2002

Reviews

[Ferhat Culfaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource reference. I have the 2003 edition and particularly used it for the excellent explanations of resolution, imaging and signal processing. Skipped the specific chapters on compression and tv specific standards.

[Alan Perry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Similar to Poynton's A Technical Introduction to Digital Video, it is a very readable collection of technical descriptions of various topics relating to digital video. The only problem with this book (and its predecessor) is that the technology is moving ahead so quickly and it takes so long to produce a quality book such as this is that several topic areas are already out-of-date. However, these books give background necessary to understand the current state of the technology.