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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.
£73.76
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
£21.25
Harper Business Streampunks
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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
£37.95
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
£55.80
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
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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
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Random House USA Inc Extra Lives
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John Wiley & Sons Inc IPTV Security
Book SynopsisTelevision was one of the inventions that shaped the way society and culture evolved over the second half of the twentieth century. It had the powerful effect of shrinking the world which creating a unified view of how things were. There continues to be an evolution of television and a migration towards a fully interactive and ubiquitous IPTV. IPTV Security describes the science and history behind TV as well as detailed descriptions of all the architectural components that comprise an IPTV environment. It covers subjects logically from the Head End passing through the aggregation network and concluding with the Home End environment. The countermeasures required to ensure the safe operation of the IPTV environment are also examined, including Digital Rights Management technologies, network level security and application level security. IPTV Security defines the security model for an IPTV environment, ensuring that all critical elements are covered and a layered approacTable of ContentsPreface. About the Author. 1. Introduction to IPTV 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 General Threats to IPTV Deployments. 2. Principles Supporting IPTV. 2.1 History of video and television. 2.2 Viewing Experience of Video. 2.3 Video compression. 2.4 TCP/IP Principles. 2.5 Summary. 3. IPTV Architecture. 3.1 High-level Architecture. 3.2 Functional architecture for the IPTV service. 3.3 Detailed IPTV architecture. 3.4 Summary. 4.Intellectual Property (IP). 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Supporting technology. 4.3 General mechanisms for content protection. 4.4 Operation of DRM on IPTV. 4.5 Watermarking and Fingerprinting. 4.6 WWW? (What went wrong). 4.7 Authentication. 4.8 Summary. 5.Existing Threats to IPTV implementations. 5.1 Introduction to IPTV Threats. 5.2 IPTV Service provider - Head End. 5.3 IPTV Network provider - transport and aggregation network. 5.4 IPTV Subscriber - Home End. 5.5 Conclusion. 6. Countering the Threats. 6.1 Securing the basis. 6.2 Head End (IPTV Service Provider). 6.3Aggregation and Transport Network. 6.4 Home End. 6.5 Secure IPTV a reality. Appendix 1. Converged Video Security. A1.1 Introduction. A1.2 Threats to IPTV Deployments. A1.3 Protecting Intellectual Property. A1.4 VOD and Broadcast. A1.5 Smart Cards and DRM. A1.6 Countering the Threats. A1.6.1 Threat References. A1.6.2 Threat Models. Appendix 2. Federated Identity in IPTV Environments. A2.1 Introduction. A2.2 IPTV Federated Identity Solutions. A2.3 Applicability to an IPTV Security Environment. A2.4 Video on Demand. Appendix 3. Barbarians at the Gate. A3.1 Barbarians at the Gate. A3.2 How to Break an IPTV Environment. A3.3 Network Under Siege. A3.4 Countermeasures. A3.5 Conclusion. Index.
£106.35
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.
£130.45
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
Lexington Books The TwentyFirstCentury Media Industry Economic
Book SynopsisThe Twenty-First-Century Media Industry examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. It provides an intriguing examination of how traditional media industries are adapting to new media technologies and evolving in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThe 21st Century Media Industry is well worth reading not only for its broad scope, but for the timeliness of the chapters. Readers of this book will come away with a clear conceptual map of the changing media landscape as well as a detailed understanding of the challenges of the years ahead in forging a new business model, or set of business models, for media operating in the digital age. -- John V. Pavlik, Rutgers UniversityPredicting the future of the media industry at this juncture may sound audacious, yet this volume does so, and the future it presents is auspicious. The 13 chapters—all by US academicians and media scholars with impressive credentials—address possible approaches to media management, new technologies and innovations, and the implications of various media: recorded music, print, journalism, cable and broadcasting (including radio), cinema, the Internet, mobile telephones. Media have saturated modern society for the past 50 years. The opening essay, coauthored by Hendricks (Stephen F. Austin State Univ.) and Susan Smith, notes that "the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosion in the communication industry [with] personal computers, satellites, cable television, cell phones, digital and high definition television, DVDs and the World Wide Web." But, the essay goes on to observe, the change is not in the media per se but rather in the "delivery systems." That the book does not offer an exact definition of the term "new media" is only right, given that in the 1450s the printing press was a "new medium." Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsDedication List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments: Change: Technology, Economic Implications, and Consumer Behaviors 1: New Media: New Technology, New Ideas or New Headaches 2: Media Management: The Changing Media Industry and Adaptability 3: DVRs and the Empowered Audience: A Transformative New Media Technology Takes Off 4: The Obstinate Audience Revisited: The Decline of Network Advertising 5: Going Viral: Mass Media Meets Innovation 6: The First Domino: The Recorded Music Industry and New Technology 7: Changes and Challenges in the Print Industry: The New Landscape of the Print Media 8: Challenges and Opportunities, New Models and the Emergence of the Next Newsroom 9: Broadcast and Cable on the Third Screen: Moving Television Content to Mobile Devices 10: How to Reach the Masses: Broadcasters' Uses of the Internet and Cell Phones 11: Making Money with Mobile 12: Cinema in the Age of RWX Culture 13: Local Market Radio: Programming and Operations in a New Media World About the Editor About the Contributors Bibliography Index
£98.10
Lexington Books The TwentyFirstCentury Media Industry Economic
Book SynopsisThe Twenty-First-Century Media Industry examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. It provides an intriguing examination of how traditional media industries are adapting to new media technologies and evolving in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThe 21st Century Media Industry is well worth reading not only for its broad scope, but for the timeliness of the chapters. Readers of this book will come away with a clear conceptual map of the changing media landscape as well as a detailed understanding of the challenges of the years ahead in forging a new business model, or set of business models, for media operating in the digital age. -- John V. Pavlik, Rutgers UniversityPredicting the future of the media industry at this juncture may sound audacious, yet this volume does so, and the future it presents is auspicious. The 13 chapters—all by US academicians and media scholars with impressive credentials—address possible approaches to media management, new technologies and innovations, and the implications of various media: recorded music, print, journalism, cable and broadcasting (including radio), cinema, the Internet, mobile telephones. Media have saturated modern society for the past 50 years. The opening essay, coauthored by Hendricks (Stephen F. Austin State Univ.) and Susan Smith, notes that 'the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosion in the communication industry [with] personal computers, satellites, cable television, cell phones, digital and high definition television, DVDs and the World Wide Web.' But, the essay goes on to observe, the change is not in the media per se but rather in the 'delivery systems.' That the book does not offer an exact definition of the term 'new media' is only right, given that in the 1450s the printing press was a 'new medium.' Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsDedication List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments: Change: Technology, Economic Implications, and Consumer Behaviors 1: New Media: New Technology, New Ideas or New Headaches 2: Media Management: The Changing Media Industry and Adaptability 3: DVRs and the Empowered Audience: A Transformative New Media Technology Takes Off 4: The Obstinate Audience Revisited: The Decline of Network Advertising 5: Going Viral: Mass Media Meets Innovation 6: The First Domino: The Recorded Music Industry and New Technology 7: Changes and Challenges in the Print Industry: The New Landscape of the Print Media 8: Challenges and Opportunities, New Models and the Emergence of the Next Newsroom 9: Broadcast and Cable on the Third Screen: Moving Television Content to Mobile Devices 10: How to Reach the Masses: Broadcasters' Uses of the Internet and Cell Phones 11: Making Money with Mobile 12: Cinema in the Age of RWX Culture 13: Local Market Radio: Programming and Operations in a New Media World About the Editor About the Contributors Bibliography Index
£40.50
Rowman & Littlefield Digital Journalism
Book SynopsisToday''s journalists need a wide range of knowledge, technical skills, and digital savvy. In this innovative book, experts on digital journalism share their perspectives on what digital journalism is, where it came from, and where it may be going. Addressing some of the most important issues in new media and journalism, authors take on history, convergence, ethics, online media and politics, alternative digital sources of information, and cutting-edge technology, from multimedia web sites and 360-degree cameras to global satellite capabilities. Digital Journalism is a valuable resource for all journalism students and an intriguing read for anyone interested in the changing technology of news.Trade ReviewA handful of other books have been written on this subject, but this very readable book is one of the few to give perspectives from such diverse areas of expertise. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A thought-provoking look at the roots of Web publishing, Digital Journalism demystifies the remarkable technology innovations that spawned instant global publishing and brought the world to our desktops. These essays provide stepping stones for classroom discussion by giving us the reporter's view from inside a torrent of change. -- Janice Castro, The Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Digital Journalism: Views from the Horizon Chapter 3 The History of Online Journalism Chapter 4 The Meanings and Implications of Convergence Chapter 5 New Technology and News Flows: Journalism and Crisis Coverage Chapter 6 Digital Photojournalism Chapter 7 Satellites, the Internet, and Journalism Chapter 8 Social Movements and the Net: Activist Journalism Goes Digital Chapter 9 Digital Government and an Informatics of Governing: Remediating the Relationship between Citizens and their Government Chapter 10 Online Medical Communication among Peers: The Net and Alternatives to Traditional Journalism Chapter 11 Conclusion Chapter 12 Multimedia Coverage: A Case Study and Exercise
£100.80
Rowman & Littlefield Digital Journalism Emerging Media and the
Book SynopsisIn this text, experts on digital journalism share their perspectives on what digital journalism is, where it came from, and where it may be going.Trade ReviewA handful of other books have been written on this subject, but this very readable book is one of the few to give perspectives from such diverse areas of expertise. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A thought-provoking look at the roots of Web publishing, Digital Journalism demystifies the remarkable technology innovations that spawned instant global publishing and brought the world to our desktops. These essays provide stepping stones for classroom discussion by giving us the reporter's view from inside a torrent of change. -- Janice Castro, The Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Digital Journalism: Views from the Horizon Chapter 3 The History of Online Journalism Chapter 4 The Meanings and Implications of Convergence Chapter 5 New Technology and News Flows: Journalism and Crisis Coverage Chapter 6 Digital Photojournalism Chapter 7 Satellites, the Internet, and Journalism Chapter 8 Social Movements and the Net: Activist Journalism Goes Digital Chapter 9 Digital Government and an Informatics of Governing: Remediating the Relationship between Citizens and their Government Chapter 10 Online Medical Communication among Peers: The Net and Alternatives to Traditional Journalism Chapter 11 Conclusion Chapter 12 Multimedia Coverage: A Case Study and Exercise
£38.00
Compass Point Books TV Launches 24Hour News with CNN 4D an Augmented
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Home Theaters and Electronic Houses
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McFarland & Company High Definition Television The Creation
Book SynopsisTraces the 40-year history of high definition television technology from initial studies in Japan, through its deployment in Europe, and then the US, where the first all-digital systems were developed. Details are provided about advances in HDTV technology in Australia and Japan, Europe's introduction of HDTV, Brazil's innovative use of MPEG-4 and China's terrestrial standard.
£32.39
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
£30.93
Trillium Sparks Flew
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Arcadia Publishing Honolulu Television
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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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Buzzpop Downton Abbey Coloring Book
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Nova Science Publishers Inc New Studies on Video Games and Health
Book SynopsisThe first chapter analyzes investigations on the use of virtual reality in the context of learning and rehabilitation. The second chapter compares video game players and non-video game players across a range of measures of competitiveness to understand the differences and similarities between these groups' context general competitive profiles. The objective of the closing chapter is to identify and analyze how the techno scientific processes of corporeal virtualization, linked to video games, have interfered in the constitution of the bodies and what implications are involved in the body culture of movement and Physical Education.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/new-studies-on-video-games-and-health/
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Rowman & Littlefield Create Video with Media Composer: Official Avid
Book SynopsisCreate Video with Avid Media Composer introduces users to the power of Media Composer software and marks the first steps toward developing core skills in video editing. The book covers the basic principles you’ll need to complete a film project using Media Composer, from initial setup to final output, and it is designed for those who are new to professional video editing and also for experienced editors who are unfamiliar with Media Composer software. Each lesson and exercise will focus on a phase of the editing process, starting with organizing media, assembling a sequence, refining a sequence, creating titles and effects, and outputting your program so that others can view it. Although this book is not aimed at teaching the theory behind film and television production, the content provides some background on the craft of editing, making it appropriate for students and others new to the art. For those interested in gaining official Avid certification, this book is also a valuable introduction for further learning and through the Avid Learning Series curriculum.
£23.75
Twelve Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Digital Television & its Status
Book SynopsisDigital television (DTV) is a new type of broadcasting technology that will transform television as we now know it. DTV technology will allow broadcasters to offer television with movie-quality picture and CD-quality sound, along with a variety of other enhancements. DTV technology can also be used to transmit large amounts of other data into the home, which may be accessible by using one''s computer or television set. DTV enables broadcasters to offer television with movie-quality picture and sound. It also offers greater multicasting and interactive capabilities. This book explores the many enhancing features, legal policies and reasons why consumers are now switching to digital television.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Digital Television: On the Threshold
Book SynopsisOn 17 February 2009, federal law requires all full-power television stations in the United States to cease analogue broadcasting, enabling the government to reclaim valuable spectrum that the broadcasters currently use for analogue broadcasts. This change, often referred to as the digital television (DTV) transition, requires action by broadcasters and consumers to ensure broadcast television signals are still available and viewable. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) created a program to subsidise consumers'' purchases of digital-to-analogue converter boxes. After the transition, households with analogue sets that rely on over-the-air broadcast signals must take action or they will lose television service, but some households might not be aware of this potential disruption.
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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
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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.
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Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher Television Production Broadcast Journalism
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University of Wales Press Nid Sianel Gyffredin Mohoni!: Hanes Sefydlu S4C
Book SynopsisDyma'r astudiaeth gyntaf ar hanes blynyddoedd cynnar un o sefydliadau diwylliannol pwysicaf Cymru - Sianel Pedwar Cymru - sy'n cloriannu penderfyniadau a gweithgareddau'r sianel yn ystod blynyddoedd ei chyfnod prawf rhwng 1981 a 1985. Trwy gyfrwng astudiaeth o gofnodion, gohebiaeth a chyfweliadau gydag unigolion fu'n allweddol i fenter gyffrous S4C, eir ati i ddarlunio'r sialensiau, y llwyddiannau a'r methiannau fu'n wynebu Awdurdod a swyddogion S4C wrth iddynt fynd ati i lunio gwasanaeth teledu Cymraeg fyddai'n ateb gofynion ac anghenion y gynulleidfa yng Nghymru. Ceir yn y gyfrol hefyd ddadansoddiad o'r gwersi y gall hanes y sianel ei gynnig i'w swyddogion cyfredol wrth iddynt fynd ati i'w gosod ar seiliau cadarn ar gyfer dyfodol sy'n ymddangos yn gynyddol ansicr.Table of ContentsRhagymadroddPennod 1 - Y frwydr dros sianel deledu GymraegPennod 2 - Deunaw mis o baratoi - dyddiau cynnar Awdurdod Sianel Pedwar CymruPennod 3 - Gwireddu'r arbrawf - darllediadau cyntaf ac argraffiadau'r gynulleidfaPennod 4 - Mentrau ariannol - sicrhau telerau teg ac ehangu i feysydd newyddPennod 5 - Adolygu'r sianel - arolygon barn ac archwiliad y Swyddfa GartrefCloriannu
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Lexington Books Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial
Book SynopsisAlgorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms. Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Presence of AlgorithmsStefka Hristova, Soonkwan Hong, and Jennifer Daryl SlackChapter 1: Why Do We Need the Concept of Algorithmic Culture?Jennifer Daryl Slack and Stefka HristovaChapter 2: Fetishizing Algorithms and Rearticulating ConsumptionSoonkwan HongChapter 3: Monoculturalism, Aculturalism, and Post-Culturalism: The Exclusionary Culture ofAlgorithmic Development Ushnish SenguptaChapter 4: “The Spectre of Self-Organization”: Will Algorithms Guide Us towards Truth?Ravi Sekhar ChakrabortyChapter 5: Machines of Liberation, Machines of Control: The Ambiguous Roots of Data CapitalismReka Patricia GalChapter 6: The Autoimmunitary Violence of the Algorithms of MourningStefka HristovaChapter 7: Algorithms, Identity, and Cultural Consequences of Genetic ProfilesAmanda K. GirardChapter 8: Technologies of Convenience: An Examination of the Algorithmic Bias in the Input/Output System of Digital CamerasJoel S. BeattyChapter 9: Generative Adversarial Networks: Contemporary Art and/as AlgorithmJames MacDevittAbout the Contributors
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Lexington Books Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial
Book SynopsisAlgorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms. Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Presence of AlgorithmsStefka Hristova, Soonkwan Hong, and Jennifer Daryl SlackChapter 1: Why Do We Need the Concept of Algorithmic Culture?Jennifer Daryl Slack and Stefka HristovaChapter 2: Fetishizing Algorithms and Rearticulating ConsumptionSoonkwan HongChapter 3: Monoculturalism, Aculturalism, and Post-Culturalism: The Exclusionary Culture ofAlgorithmic Development Ushnish SenguptaChapter 4: “The Spectre of Self-Organization”: Will Algorithms Guide Us towards Truth?Ravi Sekhar ChakrabortyChapter 5: Machines of Liberation, Machines of Control: The Ambiguous Roots of Data CapitalismReka Patricia GalChapter 6: The Autoimmunitary Violence of the Algorithms of MourningStefka HristovaChapter 7: Algorithms, Identity, and Cultural Consequences of Genetic ProfilesAmanda K. GirardChapter 8: Technologies of Convenience: An Examination of the Algorithmic Bias in the Input/Output System of Digital CamerasJoel S. BeattyChapter 9: Generative Adversarial Networks: Contemporary Art and/as AlgorithmJames MacDevittAbout the Contributors
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Anthem Press Chinese TV in the Netflix Era
Book SynopsisSubscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) services are available on many online video-streaming platforms (VSPs) in China, such as iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, backed by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent groups (BAT), respectively. The video content on these platforms can be the same shows as those broadcasted on national or provincial television stations or originally produced and exclusively streamed on the VSP. Meanwhile, VSPs purchase the distribution rights of foreign films and television series to enrich the content pool. This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix, covering topics on business strategies of VSPs, original content production trends, trans-media stories telling cases, audience behaviors and practitioner insight.Trade Review“The development of video-streaming platforms in the West has been much discussed, but this remarkable book examines their impact, as well as the challenges they pose in China. What this book achieves is the examination of a series of detailed case studies charting indigenous companies and how they have navigated advanced streaming technologies in China. The book’s comprehensive discussion of Chinese streaming television is of great value to both Western and non-Western scholars in the field, as well as anyone interested in how television and streaming have been developed beyond companies such as Netflix” — Dr. Max Sexton, Research Fellow, University of the West of England.“Video-streaming platforms, mist theater, bullet screen, AI scriptwriting … . This edited volume covers some of the latest and most popular topics of Chinese television studies. It is highly informative and thought provoking. I recommend it to anyone interested in Chinese television in the digital age” — Professor Xihe Chen (Ph.D., Ohio State University), Director of the Editing Committee of Film Theory Research, Executive Director of Chinese Film Criticism Academic Society.Table of ContentsIntroduction Xiaying Xu; Chapter 1. Webisode Distribution and Globalization Strategies of Video-Streaming Platforms: Taking iQIYI as an Example Zhixia Mo and Hui Liu; Chapter 2. The Production of High-Quality Homemade Short Dramas on Chinese Networks: The Example of iQIYI’s Mist Theater Jia Xian and Qinqin Ren; Chapter 3. What Are They Bullet-Screening About? A Content Analysis of Bullet Screen Comments about Crime Crackdown (2021) Xiaying Xu and Qingyuan Zhao; Chapter 4. Content, Platforms and Distribution: Challenges and Prospect in the Field of Webisode Productions Wei Jiang and Pengcheng Zhou; Notes on Contributors; Index
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Intellect Books Switching to Digital Television: UK Public Policy
Book SynopsisBetween 2008 and 2012 the UK plans to turn off its conventional analogue terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV. This is part of a trend across all the technologically advanced nations of the world. The city of Berlin led the way in 2003. The Netherlands became the first country to switch fully in 2006. Digital television was launched in the UK in 1998. Its growth has been dramatic and by no means smooth. The decision to switch fully is, at its heart, a political one: governments and regulators manage terrestrial spectrum and are ultimately responsible for switchover policy. Switching off the conventional analogue television signals to which consumers (and voters) have been accustomed for most of their lives poses a tricky political challenge. It cannot be accomplished by government diktat. Switching to Digital Television shows how, for success, public policy needs to work in conjunction with both competitive market forces and with organised broadcasting industry collaboration. Switching to Digital Television is an authoritative study of the policy of digital switchover. It is based primarily on UK experience but includes comparative studies spanning the United States, Japan and the leading countries of western Europe.Trade Review"The book provides an interesting and different history of Digital Television, and if you want to know why and how the decisions were made, it deserves a place on your bookshelf."- Jim Slater, Image Technology Magazine Michael Starks brilliantly describes the complex mix of Government and industry responses to technological change which have led to the digital switchover process in the UK. No-one is in chargeA" of the programme, but it happens collaboratively anyway.' - Barry Cox, Chairman of Digital UK "Michael Starks (1962) played a leading role in orchestrating the UK switch-over from analogue to digital television services... This is a clearly expressed, meticulous analysis of the whole process." - Mick Le Moignan, Once a CaianTable of ContentsChapter 1: 'Public Policy and the Market' - Page 1 - Michael Starks Chapter 2: 'Who Wants Digital Terrestrial Television?' - Page 19 - Michael Starks Chapter 3: 'Digital = Pay TV?' - Page 41 - Michael Starks Chapter 4: 'Shipwreck and Rescue' - Page 64 - Michael Starks Chapter 5: 'Charting a New Course' - Page 87 - Michael Starks Chapter 6: 'Politics and Responsibilities' - Page 111 - Michael Starks Chapter 7: 'Consumers are Voters' -Page 135 - Michael Starks Chapter 8: 'Internatioanl Perspective' - Page 154 - Michael Starks Chapter 9: 'The Bigger Picture' - Page 178 - Michael Starks Chapter 10: 'Mapping Digital Switchover' - Page 196 - Michael Starks
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC TV FAQ: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions
Book Synopsis"TV FAQ" will make you a fully informed and knowledgable, entertained and argumentative TV expert. "TV FAQ" does what it says on the cover: it answers just about everything you've always wanted to know about Television, in witty and highly informative form and is written by a leading TV writer, thinker, educator and long-term producer. "'TV FAQ" takes commonly asked questions about TV - factual, technical, ethical, content-based, controversial, plain cheeky and answers them crisply and comprehensively. Each entry contains examples, ranging from a detailed deconstruction of an episode of "NYPD Blue", to the way that audience statistics are produced, and how television gains (and sometimes forfeits) our trust. Answers can be read down, across - with links between entries - or dipped into as required.Table of ContentsSECTION ONE QUESTIONS ABOUT TV AS A MEDIUM 1. WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? (INTRODUCTION) 2. WHAT IS 'TELEVISION'? 3. IS THERE SUCH A THING AS GOOD TV? 4. DOES TV DUMB US DOWN? 5. DOES TV DISTORT WHAT IT SHOWS? 6. CAN WE TRUST ANYTHING WE SEE ON TV? 7. HAS TV CHANGED POLITICS? 8. IS TV RUBBISH? 9. IS TV AN AGENT OF GLOBALISATION? 10. DOES TV EXPLOIT PEOPLE? 11. DOES TV MAKE YOU FAT? 12. IS THERE TOO MUCH VIOLENCE ON TV? 13. WHAT IS THE POINT OF JADE GOODY? 14. WHO WAS THAT? SECTION TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT TV GENRES 15. DOES NEWS MAKE US ANXIOUS? 16. DEOS WITNESSING TOO MUCH HORROR MAKE PEOPLE STOP CARING? 17. WHY DO TV STORIES NEVER SEEM TO COME TO AN END? 18. WHY ARE SITCOMS NOT AS GOOD AS THEY USED TO BE? 19. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DETECTIVE SERIES? 20. WHAT IS A PRECINCT DRAMA? 21. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SOAP OPERAS? 22. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE SINGLE TV PLAY? 23. IS THERE TOO MUCH SPORT ON TV? 24. WHAT IS REALITY TV? 25. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHALLENGE SHOWS? SECTION THREE QUESTIONS ABOUT USING TV 26. WHY IS FOREIGN TV SUCH RUBBISH? 27. WHY DO THEY KEEP BREAKING THE RULES? 28. WHY DON'T YOU SWITCH OFF AND DO SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING INSTEAD? 29. WHY DID THEY AXE MY FAVOURITE SERIES? 30. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY REPEATS 31. HOW DO I FIND MY WAY ROUND THE REPEATS? 32. WILL ANY TV LAST? 33. IS ANY TV ACTUALLY LIVE ANY MORE? 34. WHY DOES ALL TV LOOK THE SAME? 35. WHY DOES OLD TV LOOK SO WEIRD? SECTION FOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND THE TV INDUSTRY 36. HOW DOES THIS STUFF GET MADE ANYWAY? 37. WHAT IS A CHANNEL? 38. WHAT IS A SCHEDULE? 39. DOES TV EXIST TO SELL AUDIENCES TO ADVERTISERS? 40. WHY ARENT THERE ANY ADS ON THE BBC? 41. HOW CAN I GET A JOB IN TV? 42. WHO PAYS FOR TV? 43. WHO REGULATES TV... AND WHY? 44. HOW DO YOU WORK THE REMOTE CONTROL? 45. IS TV BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? 46. WILL DOWNLOADING REPLACE BROADCASTING? EXTRAS 47. HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE? (BIBLIOGRAPHY) 48. SEARCH (INDEX)
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc 3D Video: From Capture to Diffusion
Book SynopsisWhile 3D vision has existed for many years, the use of 3D cameras and video-based modeling by the film industry has induced an explosion of interest for 3D acquisition technology, 3D content and 3D displays. As such, 3D video has become one of the new technology trends of this century. The chapters in this book cover a large spectrum of areas connected to 3D video, which are presented both theoretically and technologically, while taking into account both physiological and perceptual aspects. Stepping away from traditional 3D vision, the authors, all currently involved in these areas, provide the necessary elements for understanding the underlying computer-based science of these technologies. They consider applications and perspectives previously unexplored due to technological limitations. This book guides the reader through the production process of 3D videos; from acquisition, through data treatment and representation, to 3D diffusion. Several types of camera systems are considered (multiscopic or multiview) which lead to different acquisition, modeling and storage-rendering solutions. The application of these systems is also discussed to illustrate varying performance benefits, making this book suitable for students, academics, and also those involved in the film industry.Table of ContentsForeword xv Notations xix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction xxv Laurent LUCAS, Celine LOSCOS and Yannick REMION PART 1. 3D ACQUISITION OF SCENES 1 Chapter 1. Foundation 3 Laurent LUCAS, Yannick REMION and Celine LOSCOS 1.1. Introduction 3 1.2. A short history 5 1.3. Stereopsis and 3D physiological aspects 14 1.4. 3D computer vision 17 1.5. Conclusion 20 1.6. Bibliography 20 Chapter 2. Digital Cameras: Definitions and Principles 23 Min H. KIM, Nicolas HAUTIERE and Celine LOSCOS 2.1. Introduction 23 2.2. Capturing light: physical fundamentals 24 2.3. Digital camera 28 2.4. Cameras, human vision and color 33 2.5. Improving current performance 35 2.6. Conclusion 38 2.7. Bibliography 38 Chapter 3. Multiview Acquisition Systems 43 Frederic DEVERNAY, Yves PUPULIN and Yannick REMION 3.1. Introduction: what is a multiview acquisition system? 43 3.2. Binocular systems 45 3.3. Lateral or directional multiview systems 54 3.4. Global or omnidirectional multiview systems 61 3.5. Conclusion 66 3.6. Bibliography 66 Chapter 4. Shooting and Viewing Geometries in 3DTV 71 Jessica PREVOTEAU, Laurent LUCAS and Yannick REMION 4.1. Introduction 71 4.2. The geometry of 3D viewing 72 4.3. The geometry of 3D shooting 75 4.4. Geometric impact of the 3D workflow 80 4.5. Specification methodology for multiscopic shooting 84 4.6. OpenGL implementation 86 4.7. Conclusion 87 4.8. Bibliography 88 Chapter 5. Camera Calibration: Geometric and Colorimetric Correction 91 Vincent NOZICK and Jean-Baptiste THOMAS 5.1. Introduction 91 5.2. Camera calibration 91 5.3. Radial distortion 95 5.4. Image rectification 98 5.5. Colorimetric considerations in cameras 103 5.6. Conclusion 109 5.7. Bibliography 110 PART 2. DESCRIPTION/RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D SCENES 113 Chapter 6. Feature Points Detection and Image Matching 115 Michel DESVIGNES, Lara YOUNES and Barbara ROMANIUK 6.1. Introduction 115 6.2. Feature points 116 6.3. Feature point descriptors 123 6.4. Image matching 128 6.5. Conclusion 131 6.6. Bibliography 132 Chapter 7. Multi- and Stereoscopic Matching, Depth and Disparity 137 Stephanie PREVOST, Cedric NIQUIN, Sylvie CHAMBON and Guillaume GALES 7.1. Introduction 137 7.2. Difficulties, primitives and stereoscopic matching 138 7.3. Simplified geometry and disparity 139 7.4. A description of stereoscopic and multiscopic methods 141 7.5. Methods for explicitly accounting for occlusions 147 7.6. Conclusion 153 7.7. Bibliography 154 Chapter 8. 3D Scene Reconstruction and Structuring 157 Ludovic BLACHE, Muhannad ISMAEL and Philippe SOUCHET 8.1. Problems and challenges 157 8.2. Silhouette-based reconstruction 158 8.3. Industrial application 162 8.4. Temporally structuring reconstructions 166 8.5. Conclusion 170 8.6. Bibliography 171 Chapter 9. Synthesizing Intermediary Viewpoints 173 Luce MORIN, Olivier LE MEUR, Christine GUILLEMOT, Vincent JANTET and Josselin GAUTIER 9.1. Introduction 173 9.2. Viewpoint synthesis by interpolation and extrapolation 173 9.3. Inpainting uncovered zones 181 9.4. Conclusion 189 9.5. Bibliography 189 PART 3. STANDARDS AND COMPRESSION OF 3D VIDEO 193 Chapter 10. Multiview Video Coding (MVC) 195 Benjamin BATTIN, Philippe VAUTROT, Marco CAGNAZZO and Frederic DUFAUX 10.1. Introduction 195 10.2. Specific approaches to stereoscopy 196 10.3. Multiview approaches 202 10.4. Conclusion 207 10.5. Bibliography 208 Chapter 11. 3D Mesh Compression 211 Florent DUPONT, Guillaume LAVOUE and Marc ANTONINI 11.1. Introduction 211 11.2. Compression basics: rate-distortion trade-off 212 11.3. Multiresolution coding of surface meshes 213 11.4. Topological and progressive coding 215 11.5. Mesh sequence compression 218 11.6. Quality evaluation: classic and perceptual metrics 221 11.7. Conclusion 223 11.8. Bibliography 224 Chapter 12. Coding Methods for Depth Videos 229 Elie Gabriel MORA, Joel JUNG, Beatrice PESQUET-POPESCU and Marco CAGNAZZO 12.1. Introduction 229 12.2. Analyzing the characteristics of a depth map 231 12.3. Depth coding methods 232 12.4. Conclusion 245 12.5. Bibliography 245 Chapter 13. StereoscopicWatermarking 249 Mihai MITREA, Afef CHAMMEM and Francoise PRETEUX 13.1. Introduction 249 13.2. Constraints of stereoscopic video watermarking 250 13.3. State of the art for stereoscopic content watermarking 255 13.4. Comparative study 259 13.5. Conclusions 267 13.6. Bibliography 268 PART 4. RENDERING AND 3D DISPLAY 271 Chapter 14. HD 3DTV and Autostereoscopy 273 Venceslas BIRI and Laurent LUCAS 14.1. Introduction 273 14.2. Technological principles 275 14.3. Design of mixing filters 280 14.4. View generation and interleaving 282 14.5. Future developments 285 14.6. Conclusion 286 14.7. Bibliography 287 Chapter 15. Augmented and/or Mixed Reality 291 Gilles SIMON and Marie-Odile BERGER 15.1. Introduction 291 15.2. Real-time pose computation 292 15.3. Model acquisition 299 15.4. Conclusion 304 15.5. Bibliography 305 Chapter 16. Visual Comfort and Fatigue in Stereoscopy 309 Matthieu URVOY, Marcus BARKOWSKY, Jing LI and Patrick LE CALLET 16.1. Introduction 309 16.2. Visual comfort and fatigue: definitions and indications 310 16.3. Signs and symptoms of fatigue and discomfort 312 16.4. Sources of visual fatigue and discomfort 315 16.5. Application to 3D content and technologies 321 16.6. Predicting visual fatigue and discomfort: first models 324 16.7. Conclusion 324 16.8. Bibliography 325 Chapter 17. 2D–3D Conversion 331 David GROGNA, Antoine LEJEUNE and Benoit MICHEL 17.1. Introduction 331 17.2. The 2D–3D conversion workflow 332 17.3. Preparing content for conversion 333 17.4. Conversion stages 337 17.5. 3D–3D conversion 343 17.6. Conclusion 343 17.7. Bibliography 344 PART 5. IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTLETS 347 Chapter 18. 3D Model Retrieval 349 Jean-Philippe VANDEBORRE, Hedi TABIA and Mohamed DAOUDI 18.1. Introduction 349 18.2. General principles of shape retrieval 350 18.3. Global 3D shape descriptors 352 18.4. 2D view oriented methods 353 18.5. Local 3D shape descriptors 353 18.6. Similarity between 3D shapes 356 18.7. Shape recognition in 3D video 359 18.8. Evaluation of the performance of indexing methods 361 18.9. Applications 363 18.10. Conclusion 366 18.11. Bibliography 366 Chapter 19. 3D HDR Images and Videos: Acquisition and Restitution 369 Jennifer BONNARD, Gilles VALETTE, Celine LOSCOS and Jean-Michel NOURRIT 19.1. Introduction 369 19.2. HDR and 3D acquisition 370 19.3. 3D HDR restitution 380 19.4. Conclusion 382 19.5. Bibliography 383 Chapter 20. 3D Visualization for Life Sciences 387 Aassif BENASSAROU, Sylvia PIOTIN, Manuel DAUCHEZ and Dimitri PAPATHANASSIOU 20.1. Introduction 387 20.2. Scientific visualization 387 20.3. Medical imaging 390 20.4. Molecular modeling 397 20.5. Conclusion 401 20.6. Bibliography 402 Chapter 21. 3D Reconstruction of Sport Scenes 405 Sebastien MAVROMATIS and Jean SEQUEIRA 21.1. Introduction 405 21.2. Automatic selection of a region of interest (ROI) 406 21.3. The Hough transform 410 21.4. Matching image features to the geometric model 412 21.5. Conclusion 415 21.6. Bibliography 417 Chapter 22. Experiments in Live Capture and Transmission of Stereoscopic 3D Video Images 421 David GROGNA and Jacques G.VERLY 22.1. Introduction 421 22.2. Retransmissions of various shows 422 22.3. Retransmissions of surgical operations 423 22.4. Retransmissions of “steadicam” interviews 428 22.5. Retransmission of a transatlantic video presentation 433 22.6. Retransmissions of bicycle races 435 22.7. Conclusion 437 22.8. Bibliography 439 Conclusion 441 Laurent LUCAS, Celine LOSCOS and Yannick REMION List of Authors 443 Index 447
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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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George Abegha Fire Stick
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Collector's Guide Publishing Live TV From the Moon
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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.
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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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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo New Media Behind the Iron Curtain – Cultural
Book SynopsisDuring the years of the Polish People's Republic, Poles were cut off from the western world. Travel was restricted, as was access to outside culture and goods. This unique situation led to a period of great ingenuity in the realm of new media. Not only were media adapted to suit Poles' needs, but new technology was fashioned to gain access to western television, film and video games. Bringing people together, VCRs, computers and satellite television were thus a window to the outside world and contemporary to the mobilisation of Solidarity and the end of communism. As such, their diffusion is an important but largely overlooked aspect of Poland's history. Acutely aware of this, the authors of this book recount new media behind the Iron Curtain in a way that will appeal to scholars and non-academic readers alike. Coupling archival research with in depth interviews, they bring to life the talent and determination of the PPR's new media pioneers, compelling others to dig further.
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