Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book

Preface

The Broadcast Engineer’s Reference Book has been compiled at a time of great change in our industry, though as it was 2,500 years ago that Heraclitus observed ‘Nothing endures but change,’ this perhaps shouldn’t come as too great a surprise. Just as digital systems encompassing audio and video have become the standard and staple components of broadcast systems, so technology has taken another step forward. Now compressed audio and video systems and IT are making their mark on the industry as part of the great Convergence. Traditionally, television and radio broadcast has been a fixed quality system whether this was 270 Mbits⁻¹ 10 bits, or 6.75 MHZ bandwidth in the studio, 525 or 625 lines composite in a 6, 7 or 8 MHZ broadcast transmission ...