Why this book? In a generation, life of the large majority of human beings is incredibly different than the life of the generation before. The ability to  communicate made possible…

Why this book? 0       Table of Contents 1        Introduction 2        The discontinuity of digital technologies 3        MPEG and digital media 4        The MPEG principles 5        The MPEG operation 5.1        The MPEG…

Media is a word typically used to indicate the means that enable communication, e.g. radio, television, storage media, internet. This book, however, calls those media delivery media and uses the…

Introduction This chapter analyses four aspects of the media distribution business and their enabling tech­nologies: Analogue media distribution describes the vertical businesses of analogue media distribution; Digitised media describes media…

Introduction The first problem to be tackled was that the MPEG “digital baseband” had to be based on standards, and international ones because they had to have global validity. The…

Introduction The challenging goals that MPEG set to itself 3 decades ago have been successfully achieved across many gener­ations of digital media standards implemented in countless products, applications and ser­vices…

Over the years, MPEG has developed a large number of standards and specifications following the principles described in the Chapter MPEG Principles and implemented them in an efficient way. This…

The MPEG membership MPEG’s most precious assets are its members. As MPEG is an ISO working group, to be entitled to attend and actively participate, experts and/or their companies must…

Introduction No one, reading MPEG standards, should deny that the spectrum of MPEG standards is an im­pressive set of disparate technologies integrated to cover  fields connected by the common thread…

The discovery of algorithms that enable better and/or new audio-visual user experiences may trigger the development and deployment of highly rewarding solutions. By joining MPEG, companies owning good technologies have…