Television technology Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Coding Video
Book SynopsisA fully up-to-date guide to transformative consumer technologies Video compression or video coding has been at the centre of a revolution in the way video is produced, delivered, and consumed. It has made the switch from analogue to digital video possible and has enabled fundamental shifts in the way we now watch video. New video compression standards, together with adaptive streaming protocols, are used to deliver high-quality video to homes and workplaces around the world. Coding Video provides a practical and comprehensive guide to the new landscape of video coding and video streaming. This book explains the core technologies with a wealth of practical examples and illustrations, covers key standards such as H.265/HEVC and includes an introduction to the new H.266/VVC standard. Coding Video will appeal to engineers, application developers, product designers and digital video professionals, as well as to graduate students and researchers in Engineering, Computer Science and related subjects.
£77.85
University of California Press Netflix Recommends
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Why We Need Film and Series Suggestions 2 • How Algorithmic Recommender Systems Work 3 • Developing Netflix's Recommendation Algorithms 4 • Unpacking Netflix's Myth of Big Data 5 • How Real People Choose Films and Series Afterword: Robot Critics vs. Human Experts Appendix. Designing the Empirical Audience Study Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.50
MIT Press Ltd We Now Disrupt This Broadcast How Cable
Book SynopsisThe collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV.Cable television channels were once the backwater of American television, programming recent and not-so-recent movies and reruns of network shows. Then came La Femme Nikita, OZ, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead. And then, just as “prestige cable” became a category, came House of Cards and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and other Internet distributors of television content. What happened? In We Now Disrupt This Broadcast, Amanda Lotz chronicles the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced an era termed “peak TV.”Lotz explains that changes in the business of television expanded the creative possibilities of television. She describes the costly infrastructure rebuilding undertake
£22.95
Springer International Publishing AG Applications and Usability of Interactive TV: 10th Iberoamerican Conference, jAUTI 2021, Sangolquí, Ecuador, December 2–3, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 10th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV, jAUTI 2021, held in Sangolqui, Ecuador, during December 2–3, 2021.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Usability and UX; interaction techniques and accesibility; and technologies, services, and applications for interactive digital TV.Table of ContentsUsability and UX.- The importance of personalization and household dynamics for notifications in the TV ecosystem.- Connect elderly to other generations through iTV: evaluating notifications’ potential.- Interaction techniques and Accesibility.- Real-time emotion recognition through video conference and streaming.- Emotional Meta-Annotation of Educational Videos. A Review of Emotional Database Characterization.- Active and Healthy Aging: The Role of a Proactive Information Assistant Embedded on TV.- Design and development of an assisted ball positioning system for soccer matches with an HBBTV server integrated to a haptic TV glove accessible to visually impaired people.- Technologies, services, and applications for interactive digital TV.- MixMyVisit – Geração automática de vídeos para a melhoria da experiência dos visitantes.- Selection of configurable computer module applied to home automation and interactive digital television.- A Process for gathering data to train the NLU module of a NLI system for iTV.
£49.49
Progressive Press Tele Screen: An Empirical & Philosophical Study
Book SynopsisThe Telescreen is the pervasive media screen put in front of, and injected into, the eyes and ears of humans in the American electronic techno-culture. This begins from birth, and moulds consciousness throughout life: not a genuine human consciousness, but rather is a less-than-human, despiritualised semi-consciousness. People today continually flood their consciousnesses with images and impressions from television, videogames, church, radio, billboards, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, etc.- the "telescreen world" of Orwell''s 1984. The Telescreen is about how this pseudosphere destroys consciousness and society as humans give their attention, consciousness, and vital spirit to the telescreen. The result is a society of unholy sub-humans, who no longer act like they have souls: They cannot turn off the telescreen world even to have dinner and talk to each other or to their children. When they do talk it is mostly about impressions from the telescreen world. Their inner subjective consciousness is constructed and formed by the telescreen, leading to a world of despiritualisation and warmongering by hordes of conformist, petty, unhappy troll-like "yes-men". -- Jeff Grupp The telescreens of 1984 substituted fiction lives for the empty ones of a brainwashed population, as in Plato''s cave. Grupp drives it home that this is our world now. Some features of this dream-world of The Telescreen: Materialism and consumerism make people into robots, shallow stooges. Degrading self-images, down-dumbing education of drills, not thinking skills. War propaganda fed on pure fakery and repetition by the media, censored of truth and filled with non-news, gossip and cant. Brainwashing underpinned by fallacious reasoning. Example: Iran and Iraq slandered as murderously planning to unleash WMDs, while the US really has and uses them for genocide against target nations. Information warfare: The bias of "educational" TV shows like the "History Channel." Trusted figures hired to peddle suspect messages. Journalists who stray from the party line into real issues are fired. Exploiting the herd instinct to impose conformity. Psychological tyranny is more effective than brute force. An artificial consciousness is dinned into people by constant electronic stimuli. They depend on it -- and on pharmaceutical drugs too -- for a feeling of well-being: they are addicts. Appendix -- Infowars articles: the NWO is taking over the patriot and truth movements, seemingly attacking itself. We need Jeffersonian militias, not gun control. -- J-P Leonard
£999.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Knowledge Management & Communication in the
Book SynopsisThe information age came with the promise of transparency greater than anything witnessed heretofore by humanity. Of course, transparency is the essence of foresight and knowledge. The hope was for a greater accountability that would follow increased transparency, compelling policy makers to depend on knowledge and foresight rather than disinformation and hidden agendas. Recent events of the new millennium indicate that the increase has been in opacity and disinformation. The information age, often dubbed as the knowledge era'', has become the antithesis of knowledge, however; even its most ardent proponents admit that. Despite globalization, the information age has failed to generate knowledge-based decision-making tools.
£146.24
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Creating Digital Content A Video Production Guide for Web Broadcast and Cinema
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this work is to provide a resource for the various production aspects of DTV, and, at the same time it should allow a discussion of differing techniques, ideas and approaches to DTV.Table of ContentsI. What is DTV? 1. Background 2. Multiple Formats 3. What is: HDTV SDTV Enhanced TV Multicasting Datacasting II. Application of DTV 1. Sports 2. Documentary 3. Prime Time Episodic (Film) 4. Prime Time Episodic (Multi-camera shoot as live) 5. Music/Performance 6. Children's Educational 7. News 8. Corporate/Presentation 9. Web Production 10. Enhanced TV III. Technique 1. Camera (single camera shooting) 2. Camera (multi-camera shooting) 3. Film - framing for multiple aspect ratios 4. Film - film transfer 5. Audio (5.1) 6. Lighting 7. Post-production (non-linear) 8. Post-production (linear) 9. Post-production (for multiple output) 10. Enhanced TV (content creation) 11. Enhanced TV (programming) 12. Datacasting IV. Glossary
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Random House USA Inc Extra Lives
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iUniverse Complete Electronic Media Guide
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£12.63
Legare Street Press Experimental Television a Series of Simple Experiments With Television Apparatus Also how to Make a Complete Home Television Transmitter and Television Receiver
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£25.60
Creative Media Partners, LLC How Motion Pictures Are Made
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Television the Eyes of Tomorrow
£21.56
Creative Media Partners, LLC Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers Volume 19301935
£22.75
Creative Media Partners, LLC Electronic Television
£27.81
Rk Books Publication AllStar 2025
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Rk Books Publication AllStar 2025
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Low Voltage Wiring Demystified
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Independently Published Open Broadcaster Software User Guide for Beginners
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Gabler Auslaufmodell Fernsehen?: Perspektiven des TV in
Book SynopsisDas traditionelle Fernsehen ist unter Druck. Herausgefordert wird es durch das Internet, das mit 40 Millionen Nutzern in Deutschland längst zu einem Massenmedium geworden ist. Stetig steigende Bandbreiten und immer günstigere Flatrate-Zugänge steigern die Attraktivität des Mediums für Anbieter und Nachfrager weiter. Einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Steigerung der Breitenwirkung des Internets leisten dabei audiovisuelle Inhalte. Angebote wie IPTV, Web-TV oder Videoportale treten zunehmend in Konkurrenz zum herkömmlichen Fernsehen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Entwicklungen stellt sich die Frage nach der Zukunft des Fernsehens in einer digitalen Medienwelt. Ist das traditionelle Fernsehen ein Auslaufmodell im Wettbewerb mit Online-Angeboten oder bieten sich neue Perspektiven? Diese Frage diskutieren renommierte Praktiker und Wissenschaftler in dem vorliegenden Band.Trade Review"[...] der Band [bietet] einen hervorragenden Überblick über eine aktuelle Debatte und zeichnet sich dabei durch die vielen Perspektiven, die er vereint, aus." MEDIENwissenschaft, 4-2009 "Es [das Buch] trifft gerade einen empfindlichen Nerv, als in Zeiten finanziellen Drucks Bewegung in die Märkte kommt - zwischen öffentlich-rechtlich und privat, zwischen Print, Internet und TV." www.observer.at, 23.01.2009 "Wer sich über Strategien und Entwicklungsmodelle informieren will, die im aktuellen Fernsehmarkt diskutiert werden, der findet im Reader 'Auslaufmodell Fernsehen?' eine überaus interessante und anregende Sammlung von Aufsätzen renommierter Fachvertreter zu den Perspektiven des Fernsehens in der digitalen Medienwelt. Das Buch eignet sich zudem hervorragend als Diskussionsgrundlage zu den großen Herausforderungen, vor denen die gesamte Medienbranche nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern weltweit steht." www.freiehonnefer.de, 21.11.2008Table of ContentsWeg in den konvergenten Medienmarkt Vom passiven Zuschauer zum aktiven Fernsehkonsumenten Fernsehveranstalter – heute und morgen Von der Fernsehwerbung zur digitalen Markenführung Von analoger Verbreitung zu digitalen Distributionsplattformen Die digitale Medienwelt als Herausforderung für die Regulierung
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University of Illinois Press Zworykin Pioneer of Television
Book SynopsisWhat can radical historians learn by engaging with new trends in world history? This title explores some of the possibilities created by the dialogue between world history and radical history - in the way we frame our research, narrate our stories, and teach our subjects.Trade Review"By focusing squarely on the cultural dimensions of social welfare policy, Sanford Schram brilliantly illuminates recent turns in policy and politics. Nor does he slight the material for the symbolic. Rather he shows the close connections between the cultural and material aspects of policy. Most welcome of all, Schram's work is imbued with a rare empathetic concern for the people who are both the beneficiaries and victims of social welfare." - Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center of the City University of New York "If you want a flesh-and-blood story of the real agendas that lie behind policy-making in the age of tough love, After Welfare is the best book on the topic. Schram's incisive expose makes for spectacular common sense." - Andrew Ross, New York University "This engagingly written book lays bare the dirty little secrets' of a new order of social policy, one that shores up inequality by tapping into cultural reserves of race and gender prejudice while publicly presenting a neutral face. Its power derives from Schram's eloquence, his sharp wit, and his talent for persuading the reader to scrutinize social policy through the lens of social theory." - Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota "Sanford Schram's After Welfare is an exemplary combination of political theory, cultural critique, applied policy analysis and astute and comprehensive mapping of the contemporary politics of welfare. It should engage a wide readership in both academia and the policy community." - Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii
£38.70
Indiana University Press Playing to Win Sports Video Games and the
Book SynopsisIn this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.Trade Review[W]hat is particularly unique about Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play . . . is that it offers a critical assessment of sports video games at a time when such an assessment is necessary, given the convergence of gaming and sports culture. * International Journal of Sport Communication *In taking on a number of dfferent kinds of topics, Brookey and Oates have assembled a collection that encourages the reader to think beyond any singular way of examining sports games. * American Journal of Play *Numerous avenues of inquiry worthy of closer investigation are offered in this book. As such, this work is a useful contribution to this burgeoning field of study. * Library Journal *Essays complement one another and, taken together, provide a comprehensive overview of important considerations in a field that is only beginning to be researched in depth. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPlaying to Win: An introduction. / Thomas P. Oates and Robert Alan BrookeyPart I: Gender Play1. The Name of the Game is Jocktronics: Sport and Masculinity in Early Video Games / Michael Z. Newman2. Madden Men: Masculinity, Race, and the Marketing of a Video Game Franchise / Thomas P. Oates3. Neoliberal Masculinity: The Government of Play and Masculinity in E-Sports / Gerald Voorhees4. The Social and Gender in Fantasy Sports Leagues / Luke Howie and Perri Campbell5. Domesticating Sports: The Wii, the Mii and Nintendo's Postfeminist Subject / Rene Powers and Robert Alan BrookeyPart II. The Uses of Simulation6. Avastars: The Encoding of Fame within Sport Digital Games / Steven Conway7. Keeping it Real: Sports Video Game Advertising and the Fan-Consumer / Cory Hillman and Michael Butterworth8. Exploiting Nationalism and Banal Cosmopolitanism: EA's FIFA World Cup 2010 / Andrew Baerg9. Ideology, It's In The Game: Selective Simulation in EA Sports' NCAA Football / Meredith M. Bagley and Ian Summers10. Yes Wii Can or Can Wii: Theorizing the Possibilities of Video Games as Health Disparity Intervention / David J. Leonard, Sarah Ullrich-French, and Thomas G. PowerContributorsIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Playing to Win Sports Video Games and the
Book SynopsisIn this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.Trade Review[W]hat is particularly unique about Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play . . . is that it offers a critical assessment of sports video games at a time when such an assessment is necessary, given the convergence of gaming and sports culture. * International Journal of Sport Communication *In taking on a number of dfferent kinds of topics, Brookey and Oates have assembled a collection that encourages the reader to think beyond any singular way of examining sports games. * American Journal of Play *Numerous avenues of inquiry worthy of closer investigation are offered in this book. As such, this work is a useful contribution to this burgeoning field of study. * Library Journal *Essays complement one another and, taken together, provide a comprehensive overview of important considerations in a field that is only beginning to be researched in depth. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPlaying to Win: An introduction. / Thomas P. Oates and Robert Alan BrookeyPart I: Gender Play1. The Name of the Game is Jocktronics: Sport and Masculinity in Early Video Games / Michael Z. Newman2. Madden Men: Masculinity, Race, and the Marketing of a Video Game Franchise / Thomas P. Oates3. Neoliberal Masculinity: The Government of Play and Masculinity in E-Sports / Gerald Voorhees4. The Social and Gender in Fantasy Sports Leagues / Luke Howie and Perri Campbell5. Domesticating Sports: The Wii, the Mii and Nintendo's Postfeminist Subject / Rene Powers and Robert Alan BrookeyPart II. The Uses of Simulation6. Avastars: The Encoding of Fame within Sport Digital Games / Steven Conway7. Keeping it Real: Sports Video Game Advertising and the Fan-Consumer / Cory Hillman and Michael Butterworth8. Exploiting Nationalism and Banal Cosmopolitanism: EA's FIFA World Cup 2010 / Andrew Baerg9. Ideology, It's In The Game: Selective Simulation in EA Sports' NCAA Football / Meredith M. Bagley and Ian Summers10. Yes Wii Can or Can Wii: Theorizing the Possibilities of Video Games as Health Disparity Intervention / David J. Leonard, Sarah Ullrich-French, and Thomas G. PowerContributorsIndex
£18.89
Indiana University Press Hollywood Gamers
Book SynopsisWhen movie-making and gaming collideTrade ReviewHighly recommended. All levels. * Choice *With his clear, concise, and enthusiastic writing, Robert Alan Brookey provides an informative and timely contribution to the new and emerging fields of game studies and media industry studies. . . . Hollywood Gamers proves to be a rich source for scholars interested in the various levels of parallels and interdependence that goes on between the film and vieo game industries. * Convergence *Highly recommended. All levels. June 2011 * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Playing Together2. Playing the Games, Being the Heroes3. Coppola Sleeps with the Fishes4. Marvel Goes to the Movies5. Disney Saves the World(s)6. What Shall We Play Next?NotesWorks CitedIndex
£8.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Mpeg4 Facial Animation
Book SynopsisThe Moving Pictures Expert Group recently produced the MPEG--4 International Standard. One of the more revolutionary parts of the new standard is the Face and Body Animation, or FBA: the specification for efficient coding of shape and animation of human faces and bodies. This book concentrates on the animation of faces.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Author Biographies. Foreword. Preface. PART 1: BACKGROUND. The Origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation Standard (Igor S. Pandzic and Robert Forchheimer). PART 2: THE STANDARD. Face Animation in MPEG-4 (Jörn Ostermann). MPEG-4 Face Animation Conformance (Eric Petajan). PART 3: IMPLEMENTATIONS. MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile Applications (Igor S. Pandzic). The Facial Animation Engine (Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj). Extracting MPEG-4 FAPS from Video (Jörgen Ahlberg). Real-Time Speech-Driven Face Animation (Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen and Thomas S. Huang). Visual Text-to-Speech (Catherine Pelachaud). Emotion Recognition and Synthesis Based on MPEG-4 FAPs (Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Stefanos Kollias, Roddy Cowie and Ellen Douglas-Cowie). The InterFace Software Platform for Interactive Virtual Characters (Igor S. Pandzic, Michele Cannella, Franck Davoine, Robert Forchheimer, Fabio Lavagetto, Haibo Li, Andrew Marriott, Sotiris Malassiotis, Montse Pardas, Roberto Pockaj and Gael Sannier). PART 4: APPLICATIONS. Model-based Coding: The Complete System (Haibo Li and Robert Forchheimer). A Facial Animation Case Study for HCI: The VHML-Based Mentor System (Andrew Marriott). PlayMail ? Put Words into Other People?s Mouth (Jörn Ostermann). E-Cogent: An Electronic Convincing aGENT (Jörn Ostermann). alterEGO: Video Analysis for Facial Animation (Eric Petajan). EPTAMEDIA: Virtual Guides and Other Applications (Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj). Appendix 1: Evaluating MPEG-4 Facial Animation Players (Jörgen Ahlberg, Igor S. Pandzic and Liwen You). Appendix 2: Web Resources. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Video Codec Design Developing Image and Video
Book SynopsisCodec algorithms are used to encode and decode (or compress and decompress) data, such as video files, without distorting the visual quality of the decoded image. The key technologies of image and video coding are enabling a range of multimedia devices, systems and low bit-rate application. This book deals with this subject.Trade ReviewThis book deserves to be in every university library and it would be excellent as a course text. Also, if you have even a passing understanding of signal processing and want to know more, it's a great read--VISUAL SYSTEMS JOURNAL, JUNE 2002Table of ContentsIntroduction 1Digital Video 5Image and Video Compression Fundamentals 27Vide Coding Standards: JPEG and MPEG 47Video Coding Standards: H.261, H.263 and H.26L 79Motion Estimation and Compensation 93Transform Coding 127Entropy Coding 163Pre- and Post-Processing 195Rate, Distortion and Complexity 211Transmission of Coded Video 235Platforms 257Video CODEC Design 271Future Developments 289
£95.36
University of California Press Netflix Recommends
Book SynopsisAlgorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity. Curiously, both proponents and detractors assume that recommender systems for choosing films and series are novel, effective, and widely used. Scrutinizing the world's most subscribed streaming service, Netflix, this book challenges that consensus. Investigating real-life users, marketing rhetoric, technical processes, business models, and historical antecedents, Mattias Frey demonstrates that these choice aids are neither as revolutionary nor as alarming as their celebrants and critics maintainand neither as trusted nor as widely used.Netflix Recommendsbrings to light the constellations of sources that real viewers use to choose films and series in the digital age and argues that although some lament AI's hostile takeover of humanistic cultures, the thirst fTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Why We Need Film and Series Suggestions 2 • How Algorithmic Recommender Systems Work 3 • Developing Netflix's Recommendation Algorithms 4 • Unpacking Netflix's Myth of Big Data 5 • How Real People Choose Films and Series Afterword: Robot Critics vs. Human Experts Appendix. Designing the Empirical Audience Study Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£64.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Television The Life Story of a Technology
Book SynopsisBased on the latest research, this crisply written, sometimes provocative survey includes a glossary, timeline, and bibliography for further reading.Trade ReviewTracing the history of television from early inception through golden age, to the current world of flat screens, cable, and satellites, Magoun comprehensively overviews a medium now in everyone's memory... Readers are left with an appreciation for an old friend that they enjoyed having around, as well as recognition of the role that television has played in making entertainment and communication what it is today. Choice In this history of television, Magoun not only explains the development and basic workings of this technology but also the processes, personalities, and business decisions involved, and TV's impact on American values. In a 'life cycle' framework, he traces TV from its protracted birth through the death of cathode tube TVs and resurrection in digital form. The author addresses issues relating to the paternity of inventions, government regulation, and changing broadcast standards. Scitech Book News A handful of black-and-white photographs, a bibliography, and an index enhance this highly readable account, sure to fascinate lay readers and scholars alike. Midwest Book Review 2009 Offers anyone with an interest in the story behind television's history an interesting and highly readable view of many of the people, corporate entities, and government agencies crucial to its invention and its subsequent technological development. -- Patricia L. Dooley Journalism History 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. Conception, 1873–19112. Birth of a Technology; or Invention, 1912–19283. Parenthood: Television's Innovation, 1928–19414. Working for a Living: Television's Commercialization, 1941–19665. Children of the Revolution, 1947–19876. The Digital Generation and the End of TelevisionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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New York University Press Netflix Nations
Book SynopsisHow streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media players of all kinds. In this unfamiliar environment, new global giants of television distribution are emergingincluding Netflix, the world's largest subscription video-on-demand service.Combining media industry analysis with cultural theory, Ramon Lobato explores the political and policy tensions at the heart of the digital distribution revolution, tracing their longer history through our evolving understanding of media globalization. Netflix Nations considers the ways that subscription video-on-demand services, but most of all Netflix, have irrevocably changed the circulation of media content. It tells the story of how a global video portal interacts with national audiences, markets, Trade ReviewNetflix Nations is an important and timely addition to the existing scholarly literature on the digital distribution of television and how it is changing the digital landscape. It is one of the first studies of the global geography of online television distribution that explores the digital media landscape and how the internet’s capacity for world distribution of television clashes with national media trade, and taste and moral values. Ramon Lobato explores how the digital distribution of the television reshaping modern civilization. This well-researched, nuanced and brilliantly-written will [change] the way you think of media, globalization, and power. * The Washington Book Review *In exploring how internet-distributed television services are reshaping the national boundaries of the industry, Lobato offers a cutting-edge study that advances our understanding of Netflix and cultural globalization and reconceptualizes the relationship between 'old' and 'new' media. Netflix Nations will change the way we think about infrastructure, globalization, power, and the television we know and love. -- Amanda D. Lotz, author of The Television Will Be RevolutionizedIn this most valuable book, Lobato gives us a highly nuanced account of the global spread of Netflix that emphasizes how extraordinarily diverse are the infrastructural, policy, and consumption conditions within which it finds is place. The breadth of the research is impressive, and its insistence on a comparative approach across (at least) four continents brings a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the Netflix phenomenon. -- Graeme Turner, author of Re-Inventing the MediaLobato’s ability to synthesize complex and wide-ranging discussions within the field and offer fruitful definitional attempts makes Netflix Nations a very valuable contribution to rethinking the current state of (Internet) television affairs, specifically as it pertains to Netflix as a case study. * Journal of Digital Media & Policy *Netflix Nations is theoretically rich and comprehensive. Displaying a deep knowledge of history and scholarship, Lobato skillfully brings to light underlying philosophies of platforms and expands upon intricate studies in television and media from around the world. * International Journal of Communication *Netflix Nations is a scholarly yet highly readable guide to understanding the transformations brought about by the increasingly global availability of Internet-distributed television. * Film Quarterly *
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New York University Press Netflix Nations
Book SynopsisHow streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media players of all kinds. In this unfamiliar environment, new global giants of television distribution are emergingincluding Netflix, the world's largest subscription video-on-demand service.Combining media industry analysis with cultural theory, Ramon Lobato explores the political and policy tensions at the heart of the digital distribution revolution, tracing their longer history through our evolving understanding of media globalization. Netflix Nations considers the ways that subscription video-on-demand services, but most of all Netflix, have irrevocably changed the circulation of media content. It tells the story of how a global video portal interacts with national audiences, markets, Trade ReviewNetflix Nations is an important and timely addition to the existing scholarly literature on the digital distribution of television and how it is changing the digital landscape. It is one of the first studies of the global geography of online television distribution that explores the digital media landscape and how the internet’s capacity for world distribution of television clashes with national media trade, and taste and moral values. Ramon Lobato explores how the digital distribution of the television reshaping modern civilization. This well-researched, nuanced and brilliantly-written will [change] the way you think of media, globalization, and power. * The Washington Book Review *In exploring how internet-distributed television services are reshaping the national boundaries of the industry, Lobato offers a cutting-edge study that advances our understanding of Netflix and cultural globalization and reconceptualizes the relationship between 'old' and 'new' media. Netflix Nations will change the way we think about infrastructure, globalization, power, and the television we know and love. -- Amanda D. Lotz, author of The Television Will Be RevolutionizedIn this most valuable book, Lobato gives us a highly nuanced account of the global spread of Netflix that emphasizes how extraordinarily diverse are the infrastructural, policy, and consumption conditions within which it finds is place. The breadth of the research is impressive, and its insistence on a comparative approach across (at least) four continents brings a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the Netflix phenomenon. -- Graeme Turner, author of Re-Inventing the MediaLobato’s ability to synthesize complex and wide-ranging discussions within the field and offer fruitful definitional attempts makes Netflix Nations a very valuable contribution to rethinking the current state of (Internet) television affairs, specifically as it pertains to Netflix as a case study. * Journal of Digital Media & Policy *Netflix Nations is theoretically rich and comprehensive. Displaying a deep knowledge of history and scholarship, Lobato skillfully brings to light underlying philosophies of platforms and expands upon intricate studies in television and media from around the world. * International Journal of Communication *Netflix Nations is a scholarly yet highly readable guide to understanding the transformations brought about by the increasingly global availability of Internet-distributed television. * Film Quarterly *
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Bandwidth Allocation for Video under Quality of
Book SynopsisWe present queueing-based algorithms to calculate the bandwidth required for a video stream so that the three main Quality of Service constraints, i.e., end-to-end delay, jitter and packet loss, are ensured. Conversational and streaming video-based applications are becoming a major part of the everyday Internet usage. The quality of these applications (QoS), as experienced by the user, depends on three main metrics of the underlying network, namely, end-to-end delay, jitter and packet loss. These metrics are, in turn, directly related to the capacity of the links that the video traffic traverses from its source to destination. The main problem that this book addresses is how much bandwidth we should allocate on the path from source to destination of a video traffic flow such that the end-to-end delay, jitter and packet loss of the video packets are within some expected required bounds.Table of ContentsBIOGRAPHIES vii ACRONYMS xi INTRODUCTION xv CHAPTER 1. PARTITIONING THE END-TO-END QOS BUDGET TO DOMAINS 1 1.1. The need for adding percentiles 2 1.2. Calculation of the weight function 4 1.2.1. Exponential components with identical rate parameters 5 1.2.2. Exponential components with different rate parameters 8 1.2.3. Two-stage Coxian 14 1.3. Interprovider quality of service 18 1.4. Single source shortest path using Dijkstra’s algorithm 22 1.5. Conclusions 24 CHAPTER 2. BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR VIDEO: MMPP2 ARRIVALS 27 2.1. The queueing network under study 30 2.2. Single-node decomposition 32 2.3. Bandwidth estimation based on bounds 33 2.4. Validation 38 2.5. Conclusions 46 CHAPTER 3. BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR VIDEO: MAP2 ARRIVALS 47 3.1. The queueing network under study 48 3.2. End-to-end delay estimation based on bounds 50 3.2.1. The interpolation function 52 3.3. Validation 55 3.4. Video traces 57 3.5. Conclusions 64 CHAPTER 4. BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR VIDEO: VIDEO TRACES 67 4.1. The proposed algorithm 70 4.2. Test traces 76 4.3. Bandwidth requirements for homogeneous flows 83 4.4. Bandwidth allocation under percentile delay and jitter constraints 88 4.5. Bandwidth allocation under percentile delay, average jitter and packet loss rate constraints 94 4.6. Conclusions 99 BIBLIOGRAPHY 101 INDEX 109
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo New Media Behind the Iron Curtain – Cultural
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