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DVD player fundamentals

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DVD player fundamentals -- Sams Technical Publishing presents DVD player fundamentals

Call No

TK7882.D93

Authors

Ross, John A. (John Allan), 1955-

Subjects

DVD players.

Language

English

Published

Publication Desc

272 p. : ill. ;

ISBN

0790611945

LCCN

00108429

Dimensions

24 cm.

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General Note

Includes index.

Content Note

1Optical Disc Technologies 1 -- Premastering and Mastering 1 -- Substrate Materials and Characteristics 3 -- Optical Encoding Methods 4 -- Data Conversion for Optical Discs 6 -- Binary Numbers 7 -- Placing Digital Information on the Disc 8 -- Sampling Audio and Video Data 9 -- Aliasing 11 -- Quantization 11 -- Oversampling 12 -- Modulating the Data 12 -- Encoding the Data 13 -- Forward-Error Correction (FEC) 15 -- Synchronization 16 -- File Systems 18 -- Recovering the Data During Playback 18 -- 2 CD Standards and Technologies 21 -- Red Book Standards: CD-DA and CD-Extra 21 -- Orange Book Standards: Magneto-Optical, Write-Once, Rewritable 23 -- Land-groove Recording 27 -- Green Book Standards: CD-i 28 -- White Book Standards: Video-CD and Bridge Discs 32 -- Yellow Book Standards: CD-ROM and CD-ROM/XA 33 -- File Formats 36 -- 3 DVD Basics 41 -- DVD Forum 41 -- Comparing CD and DVD 42 -- Storage Capacity 43 -- Mass 45 -- Movement and Data Rates 48 -- DVD File Management Structure 51 -- Forward-Error Correction (FEC) 54 -- Encoding Methods 54 -- EFM+ 55 -- 4 DVD-Video 57 -- Interactivity 57 -- DVD-Video and Variable Bit-Rate Coding 57 -- System Parameters and General Parameters 58 -- Menus 58 -- Subpicture Overlays 60 -- Presentation and Playback Program Chains 61 -- Navigation Commands 61 -- Title Design 61 -- Aspect Ratio 62 -- Angles 65 -- Audio 65 -- Parental Control 68 -- DVD-ROM and DVD-Video 70 -- High-Definition TV and DVD-Video 70 -- 5 DVD and Copy Protection 75 -- Historical Look at Digital Copyright Protection and DVD 75 -- Copy Generation Management System 77 -- DVD Encryption 79 -- Digital Transmission Content Protection 79 -- Copy Protection and DVD 81 -- Watermarking 85 -- Content Protection For Recordable Media (CPRM) 86 -- Regional Playback Control (RPC) 88 -- Regional Playback Control and Contents-Scramble System 90 -- High-Definition DVD Encryption 91 -- 6 DVD MPEG and Dolby Signal Compression 93 -- Converting Analog Signals into Digital Signals 93 -- Limitations of Sampling and Quantization 95 -- Compressing Video Signals 95 -- Adaptive Rate Control 98 -- MPEG Standard 98 -- MPEG Encoding 101 -- Compressing the Audio 108 -- 7 DVD Recordable Technologies 111 -- DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW 111 -- Future DVD Applications in Computing 124 -- 8 DVD Video Player Circuits: Power Supply 125 -- Electronic Systems 125 -- Voltage Supplies 134 -- Rectifying the AC Line Voltage 134 -- Filtering 135 -- Regulation 136 -- Voltage Dividers 137 -- Switch-Mode Power Supplies 137 -- DVD Video Player Power Supply 143 -- DVD Video Player Power-Supply Regulation 146 -- DVD Player Operating Voltages 147 -- Overvoltage and Overcurrent Protection 147 -- 9 DVD Video Player Circuits: Optical Pickup Unit 149 -- Basic Operation of DVD Video Player Optical Electronics 149 -- Optical Pickup Unit 152 -- Dual Lasers Used for DVD Readers and Players 155 -- Next-Generation Semiconductor Laser Diode Technologies 156 -- Read-Only Optical System Data Amplifier and Laser Supply Circuit 162 -- Zenith DVD Video Player Optical Pickup and Servo Electronics 164 -- 10 DVD Video Player Signal Circuits 169 -- Frequency Characteristics 169 -- Noise 173 -- Circuit Functions 173 -- Rf Amplifier Stage Operation 178 -- Automatic Gain Control 179 -- Rf Automatic Gain Control 181 -- Digital Signal Processing 181 -- Zenith DVD Video Player Signal Processing 181 -- 11 DVD Video Player Encoding and Decoding 189 -- Video Signals 189 -- Hue, Saturation, and Chrominance 192 -- Frequency Interleaving 194 -- DVD-Video, NTSC, and PAL 196 -- Zenith DVD Video Player Encoding and Decoding 197 -- MPEG Audio/Video Decoding 197 -- NTSC/PAL Video Encoding 201 -- Audio Decoding 205 -- Amplifying the Video Signal 206 -- 12 DVD Video Player Microcontroller and Customer Display Circuits 209 -- Microcontrollers 209 -- Embedded Microcontrollers 210 -- Zenith DVD Video Player Control Circuits 211 -- Main Microcontroller 211 -- Customer Preference Controls 217 -- Frequency Synthesis Section 218 -- Frequency Synthesis 220 -- Zenith DVD Video Player Customer Controls 223 -- Customer Display Technologies 227 -- On-Screen Channel and Menu Displays 227 -- Zenith DVD Video Player LCD Display Circuit Operation 228 -- Remote Controls and Remote Receivers 231 -- Volume Control 231 -- Zenith DVD Video Player Remote-Control Functions 233 -- Remote-Control Transmitter Integrated Circuit 234 -- 13 DVD and Computers 237 -- Computing System Basics 238 -- Hardware Requirements and Support for DVD Technologies 241 -- Bus Mastering Requirements 242 -- ATA/ATAPI Standards 242 -- IEEE-1394 244 -- Hardware Decoders 247 -- Software Support For DVD Technologies 247 -- Software Decoders 248 -- Windows Driver Model Streaming Class Driver 248 -- DirectShow 249 -- DVD-ROM/RAM Drives 252 -- Drive Interface Cable Connections 256 -- Device-Configuration Jumpers 257 -- DVD-ROM Drive ATAPI Host Circuit 257 -- Cirrus DVD Drive Manager 258.