Product Description: "Useful for those working in home entertainment, television repair, consumer electronics, and video systems fields, this teaching manual includes self-tests to monitor progress. In-depth explanations and detailed illustrations shed light on such topics as video cameras, picture tubes, scanning and synchronization, circuits and signals, television transmission, fiber optics, voltage sources, remote operation, cable TV, and digital television...read more

Product Description: The MPEG-4 video compression standard will finally make video over the internet technologically and financially feasible--and here's the book that shows readers how to use the standard to compress and stream their own material. Following the popular DEMYSTIFIED SERIES format, the book addresses the standard in terms of functionality: what can the standard do and how do you use it to get what you need...read more

A guide to upgrading PCs covers such topics as CPUs, RAM, video and sound cards, storage devices, printers, and home networking.

Product Description: Why is some therapy effective and some disappointing? Amy Mindell says it has to do with the subtle atmosphere created by therapists' unconscious feelings and attitudes. By tapping into their deepest beliefs about spirit, nature, and human development (metaskills), they can become more effective healers and spiritual teachers...read more

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Product Description: With the advent of digital video cameras, anyone can shoot and produce a video for very little money -- in fact, hundreds of thousands of people are doing so. When video photographers look for guidance, they don't want to read a big book cover to cover -- they want help on their particular problem immediately...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using desktop video or PC-based digital video offers the general consumer and hobbyist the opportunity to produce and edit "mini epics" using standard hardware and simple software. Teach Yourself Digital Video and PC Editing helps readers understand the processes and gain hands-on experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Accompanied by more than two hundred photographs and diagrams, as well as a list of essential tools and components, this complete guide to assembling one's own PC home entertainment system explains how to select basic components; a video system, audio system, and storage system; and the right software to make it all work together. Original. (Intermediate) (view table of contents)

Product Description: CCTV for Security Professionals provides the information necessary to design the ideal CCTV system. The chapters are stand-alone sources of information on their subjects and are presented in logical sequence to guide the reader from basic principles to more complex for a complete system understanding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains how to complete an Avid Xpress DV program, covering topics including how to input and organize source footage, edit synchronous and non-synchronous material, and create titles. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This "must have" tool for aspiring video producers shows how every step of the production process can be cost-minimized, yet still result in a sterling, professional quality product. The author, an independent film producer, also explains how final distribution - via the web, DVD, the festival circuit, or public exhibition - can be handled in an equally inexpensive manner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fiber Optic Video Transmission: The Complete Guide is the only comprehensive reference to the techniques and hardware required to transmit video signals over optical fiber. As the broadcast industry moves to HDTV and enhanced television standards become the norm, fiber will become the medium of choice for video transmission, and this book is the essential guide to transmitting video over fiber optic cables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains how to create effects on the Avid Xpress DV system, covering topics including tasks, procedures, multi-layer and segment effects, compositing, and nesting.

Product Description: Using Apple¿s free software and this three-book bundle, anyone can make professional-looking DVD-Videos without spending a Hollywood fortune. The first book in this bundle, The Little Digital Video Book is a friendly guide to the basics of digital video...read more

Explains how to choose equipment, shoot video, record sound, edit and encode movies with Adobe Premiere, and embed movies in Web pages with Adobe GoLive.

Discusses such topics as digital video equipment, working with lighting and sound, planning a video, editing, transferring footage to a computer, transitions, special effects, publishing, and creating a video disc. (view table of contents)

The compression schemes applied for the storage and transmission of digital video data leave content sensitive to transmission errors, information loss and quality degradation. Recent developments in error resilience techniques allow improved quality of service of video communication over a range of network platforms. Digital video communications, supported by the Internet, ATM networks and Broadband ISDN, have undergone significant development over the past few years. Emerging applications include videoconferencing, tele-medicine and distance learning. This leading edge text addresses the problems associated with the delivery and design of video communication services. It presents a comprehensive overview of the principles and techniques employed in the improvement of the performance of video codecs in error prone environments. It provides a performance evaluation and comparison of video coding standards, MPEG-4, H.261 and H.2 63. It outlines methods of video communication over mobile networks. It provides guidance on quality enhancement and the meeting Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for digital video communications. Accompanying CD-ROM containing video clips illustrate the coding and error resilience technology described within the text. This is a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduate students working with video communication technology, as well as practising electronic and communications engineers designing and implementing video communication systems and consultants working in the video, television, computing and communications industries. (view table of contents)

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Traces the invention of the television by Philo T. Farnsworth, an eccentric, self-taught engineer, and the determined but losing battle he fought with David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and founder of NBC, to hold onto his creation in the face of corporate competition. (view table of contents)

An overview of the digital editing application for Macs that has been updated for integration with OS X explains how to prepare film clips, work with timelines, and add transitions and special effects to tape and video clips. (view table of contents)

Product Description: With this consumer's guide, buyers of home theatre systems will be taken through the technology and components of home entertainment and learn how they suit their individual needs. Consumers will discover the best components for their needs, how to be a savvy shopper, how to avoid buying the wrong technology, and how to set up and fine tune a system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)