Video Display Engineering (McGraw-Hill Video/Audio Professional) - Hardcover

Whitaker, Jerry C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071373438 ISBN 13: 9780071373432

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000

Synopsis

This is an engineering book detailing the design, specification, installation, and maintenance of video display devices for computer, professional video, industrial, and television systems. The underlying technology of each type of display system will be examined, with examples of typical applications. Particular attention will be paid to flat panel and projection display systems being utilized for state of the art web video and teleconferencing applications.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

You're invited to the video display revolution!

Design any type of video display!

Over the past few years, digital display system technology everything from traditional cathode ray tubes (CRTs) to cutting-edge flat-panel liquid crystal displays (LCDs) - has grown at an unprecedented rate, and it shows no sign of slowing down! Video Display Engineering delivers the information video engineers, technicians, and multimedia developers need to keep pace with and profit from these complex systems, which bridge the gap between personal computers and televisions.

Written by hands-on expert and well known author Jerry Whitaker, Video Display Engineering is a clear, easily read engineering blueprint to designing, specifying, maintaining, and installing video display devices for computer, professional, video, industrial, and television systems. Open Video Display Engineering and find:

-The hands-on guidance you need to design any type of video display, from CRTs to flat panels

-Valuable maintenance do's and don'ts

-An eye-opening comparison of the latest display technologies spanning cutting-edge applications

-A CD-ROM packed with test waveforms depicting display resolution, standards, and practices, plus valuable supporting documents

Utilizing an easy-to-follow, plain-English style, Video Display Engineering examines the underlying technology of each display type and includes examples of typical applications. Realizing their future potential and must-know status, the author includes an insightful overview of the flat-panel and projection display systems currently utilized in state-of-the-art web, video, and teleconferencing applications.

Video Display Engineering is the ideal vehicle for mastering a booming technology whose applications range from the giant screens of Times Square to pocket televisions.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0071373438
• ISBN 13: 9780071373432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 427