The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV

by Gerard O'Driscoll

Book Overview

Everything you need to know about the coming digital interactive TV revolution Theres a revolution coming to your TV: a digital, interactive, Internet-enabled revolution that will make possible... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130173606
• ISBN13: 9780130173607
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

For Beginners, the best choise

I'm despleased to read this other comments saying that the book is incomplete. I think for those who have no idea about the digital tv area is the best choise by far. Thanks Patricia

Exciting subject area

I read O'Driscoll's guide to home networking and decided to also buy his second book on set-top boxes. Although some of the product specific information is a little dated since 1999, the remaining generic content will stay relevant for many years to come. Excellent source for engineers and technical marketeers who want to take advantage of the many opportunities that are beginning to emerge from digital and interactive television

Great Interactive TV Synopsis

I recommend this book to anyone wanting an overall review of the current (11/99) state of Interactive Television industry. This is a straight forward, non-techno-geek look at a revolution in the making. After purchasing 2 initial copies, several copies were purchased for our applications engineers, QA Dept. and our Engineering library. Highly recommended.

Overall an outstanding technical resource and well written

Just commenced work in the world of digital television and purchased this book to learn the architecture of end to end systems. My general impression of the book is that it suceeded in explaining to me about digital set-top boxes and their practical applications in the future.In addition to the standard high level stuff on this subject the author delves deep into to how these new technologies work. It is a must to buy and provides a platform for a raft of more books on this huge subject in the coming years!

A work of Genius

A fabulous guide to Set top Boxes...Clearly written, concise and informative of what will be the norm in a couple of years...