Join us for a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end digital television systems: analog-to-digital conversion, compression, data services, transport multiplexing, error correction coding, modulation and receivers applicable to ATSC, DVB, digital cable, telco TV, IPTV and other open standards and systems:

Learn the basic concepts and the key considerations and practices underlying successful design, implementation and deployment of digital television systems and services. These concise perspectives will assist you in developing technologies and deployment strategies.

KNK Seminars addresses these digital TV standards, key technologies, tradeoffs and applications in highly informative and easily understandable terms. Special emphasis is given to ATSC and other systems for U.S. markets. There is no prerequisite for this seminar.

This extensive seminar is paramount to you and your company's competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving digital broadcast industries for video, audio and data services. Insights into each step in the building blocks for digital TV systems are imperative for successful optimization of image quality, signal performance and economies for different transmission channel environments.

You will benefit from reviews of the fundamentals of digital compression and modulation techniques with emphasis on their application in the digital TV standards. You will obtain a working knowledge of the divergences, characteristics, techniques and interactions of the functional building blocks in implementations for the digital TV transmission and receiver systems.

Applicable parameters and technologies are identified to cover the demands from the editing suite to SDTV and HDTV delivery via digital satellite and terrestrial links, wireless and digital cable networks, fiber optic and telecom services.

Strategies for feature-rich systems capabilities such as single and multichannel multimedia broadcasting, provisions for local commercial, news and station identification insertions, methods for broadcasting ancillary and new auxiliary data and stream switching will be analyzed.

Future trends beyond the transition and integration of these complex digital TV systems will be identified for expanding channel capacity and enhancements of video and audio quality and advanced data services.

Register today to gain the knowledge you need to excel in digital TV disciplines!

Seminar Agenda for Digital Television Systems:

September 23, 2008: DAY 1 OF DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEMS

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration and refreshments

8:30 a.m. - 12 noon

Introduction and Overview

    the digital television standards: ATSC, DVB, digital cable, telco TV, ARIB & alternatives including DirecTV for DBS
    comparison of present and digital TV systems
        analog versus digital: the differences
    structure and functional blocks of digital TV transmission systems and receivers
    matching compression and modulation to propagation environments
    technology issues

Digital Video
    scanning formats, progressive/interlaced, 16:9 & 4:3 picture aspect ratios & pixel aspect ratios, scaling and format conversions, data rates, distribution over networks
    composite & component digital video and ancillary data types

Digital Audio

    sample rates, synchronization, SNR, processing, AES/EBU embedded audio

12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Hosted networking luncheon

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Video Compression for DTV Systems

    detailed overview of the MPEG2 compression process for DTV systems
    data structures
    error concealment
    special features including data support (VBI,OSD,---), picture-in-picture, transcoding bitrates
    profiles and levels; transition from Main Profile Main Level to Main Profile High Level
    editing, cascade/tandem functionalities and performance
    constant and variable bitrates
    implementations & optimization for quality/bandwidth
    extensions & constraints for digital TV standards

Audio Compression for DTV Systems

    Dolby Digital (AC-3) coding and ATSC Dolby Digital
    MPEG1 & MPEG2 audio coding including AAC and AACPlus


September 24, 2008: DAY 2 OF DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEMS

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Transport Multiplex for DTV Systems

    packetized elementary streams, transport packet structure, multiplexing, demultiplexing, remultiplexing, timing, buffers, synchronization, error protection; features and services; Program Specific Information (PSI); ancillary data
    program management functions for extracting, removing, adding programs to aggregate streams; splicing
    statistical multiplexing, remultiplexing and bitstream rate adaption
    digital program insertion (DPI)
    conditional access-authorization and control
    ATM, IP, DVB-ASI, GigE & XDSL transport, IP-to-QAM, IPTV

Seminar Schedule:

September 23 & 24, 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA

Day One   8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.   Registration & refreshments
.................8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.   Seminar presentation
Day Two   8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.   Seminar presentation

Registration includes detailed seminar reference manual of over 280 pages, glossary, hosted networking lunches and breaks. Register today!
To schedule your on-site seminar - call 858-459-8058