thebookTHE BOOK An Engineers Guide to the Digital Transition An NVision2 Guide Acknowledgments This book is a distillation of the experiences and writings of many prominent research engineers and system designers. We would like to thank the host of chief engineers and industry professionals, have been of tremendous help in identifying the difficulties and special needs of designing large hybrid television facilities. We would also like to thank Chuck Meyer, VP of engineering at NVISION, for his many hours of work in preparing the Digital Audio sections of this book. Mention should also be made of John Watkinson whos prolific writings have provided us with a wealth of reference materials. 2 Contents ,QWURGXFWLRQ Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter ……