Digital Consumer Electronics Handbook (1997, Hardcover)

Key Details
Language:	English
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0070341435
ISBN-13:	9780070341432

Size
Height:	9.8 in
Width:	8 in
Thickness:	2.2 in
Weight:	72.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Contains detailed engineering information about digital consumer electronics, with analog information covered only peripherally. Focuses on key technologies, standards, and delivery and reception systems that are applied broadly, and shows how they are used in representative digital imaging, audio, information, and communication products; appliances; and residential automation. The technologies described are data conversion, data reduction, error correction, digital modulation, channel coding for magnetic and optical recording, and fuzzy logic. The products include interactive multimedia, VCRs and camcorders, digital cameras, CD players, MiniDiscs, compact cassettes, digital musical instruments, and personal computers with video and audio capabilities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Here is the most comprehensive guide to todayÕs fast-changing world of digital consumer electronics. The handbook offers you complete details on key enabling technologies, standards, delivery and reception systems, imaging and audio products, information and communications products, appliances, and residential automation. Packed with 650 illustrations, this surefire reference covers optical disk systems...the digital video disk (DVD)...HDTV...digital cable systems...video dialtone...digital VCRs and camcorders...digital photography...CD players...PCs...and much more!