Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV

1736K-5Everything you need to know about the coming digital interactive TV revolution!There's a revolution coming to your TV: a digital, interactive, Internet-enabled revolution that will make possible services you've never imagined! The next TV revolution comes with new technologies, new standards, new architectures, and new business paradigms. Finally, there's a single source for up-to-the-minute insight into every aspect of next-generation digital TV: The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV!From MPEG-4 to middleware, webcasting to Java OS, Gerard O'Driscoll covers the state-of-the-art, comparing the strategies and technologies-and cutting through the hype. Coverage includes all this, and more: Digital TV building blocks: compression, encoding, modulation, conditional access, transmission, and management Advanced digital set-tops: features, components, installation, and troubleshooting Set-top operating systems: JavaOS, Windows CE, David OS-9, PowerTV, VxWorks, pSOS+, Linux, and more Internet-based TV: set-top Web browsing, webcasting, email, online chat, broadband applications, video on demand, parental controls, and more Electronic program guides (EPGs): 21st century TV portals Development, server architecture, middleware, network management, smartcards, MPEG-4, and much moreWhether you're an investor, manager, marketing or PR professional, software developer, or consumer, you need to know where TV is headed, and only one book can show you: The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV!O'Driscoll, Gerard is the author of 'Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV' with ISBN 9780130173607 and ISBN 0130173606.