The explosive growth of network, multimedia and wireless technology is fundamentally changing the way people communicate, fueling demand for reliable real-time transmission of image and video data.

This unique text/reference systematically examines the issues in distributed video coding (DVC) and multiple description coding (MDC), two novel techniques designed to address the problems of conventional image and video compression coding. The book begins with a state-of-the-art survey of the topic, before proposing new methods for improving the performance of image and video transmission using DVC and MDC. Covering all fundamental concepts and core technologies, the chapters can also be read as independent and self-sufficient, describing each methodology in sufficient detail to enable readers to repeat the corresponding experiments easily.

Topics and features: provides a broad overview of DVC and MDC, from the basic principles to the latest research; covers sub-sampling based MDC, quantization based MDC, transform based MDC, and FEC based MDC; discusses Sleplian-Wolf coding based on Turbo and LDPC respectively, and comparing relative performance; includes original algorithms of MDC and DVC; presents the basic frameworks and experimental results, to help readers improve the efficiency of MDC and DVC; introduces the classical DVC system for mobile communications, providing the developmental environment in detail.

Researchers and engineers will find this book a useful reference on DVC and MDC technologies, and a guide for developing practical applications for DVC and MDC systems. The text will also be of interest to graduate students in image processing and signal processing.

The only guide to the art and technique of color correction based on the invaluable knowledge of more than a dozen of the top colorists in the world. This book allows you unprecedented access to the way the masters of the craft approach their work. Containing decades of industry experience and professional colorist know-how, this book provides an understanding of what top-tier colorists look for in an image and how they know what to do to make it great. Featuring techniques performed in a variety of color correction software applications (DaVinci Resolve, Apple Color, Synthetic Aperture's Color Finesse, and more), this book turns what has long been a misunderstood "black art" into a set of skills that any colorist, editor, independent filmmaker, or motion graphics artist can begin to master. Packed with explanations, tips, and concepts that build on each other, you will learn how to: * fix poorly exposed shots and shots with color casts * create looks * match shots * master primary and secondary color correction techniques * use color correction to advance a story This edition includes * Downloadable resources containing two hours of video tutorials using DaVinci Resolve, extended interview transcripts and color correction sessions with the professional colorists featured in the book * A brand new tutorial-based chapter, with companion project files on the downloadable resources, so you can work along with the text * New insight from additional professional colorists, including legendary colorists, Bob Festa, Stefan Sonnenfeld, and Pankaj Baipai, showing you the 'hows' and 'whys' of each grade

Super 8: An Illustrated History is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super 8 filmmaking. In addition to featuring stunning photography documenting the sleek mid-century design of Super 8 cameras and projectors, the book also offers a detailed history of the beloved medium-one not only embraced by suburban dads, the target audience of the format, but by the art world, punk rockers, and ultimately popular culture. Filmmakers who got their start in Super 8 include, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, Sam Raimi, Wes Anderson, and Alex Gibney. Thanks in part to a renewed interest in analog technologies, Kodak will be bringing a new Super 8 camera to market in 2019, their first new camera to roll off the assembly line in over thirty years. Super 8 also features interviews from filmmakers who got their start in Super 8 and individuals who were instrumental in the development of the medium. Interviews include filmmakers Richard Linklater (Slacker, Boyhood, Dazed and Confused), Dave Markey (1991: The Year Punk Broke), Rocky Schenk (music videos for Adele, Devo, Nick Cave, The Cramps, Robert Plant), James Mackay on Derek Jarman (Last of England, Jubilee), Lenny Lipton (The Super 8 Book), James Nares (Rome '78), G.B. Jones (The Lollipop Generation), Bruce LaBruce (Hustler White, The Misandrists), Peggy Ahwesh (Martina's Playhouse), Paul Sheptow (Super-8 Filmmaker magazine), Ed Sayers (The Straight 8 Film Festival), Melinda Stone (Super Super 8 Film Festival), Jonathan Tyman (Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival), Norwood Cheek (Flicker zine and screening series), Martha Colburn, Narcisa Hirsch, slit, Matthias Muller, John Porter, and Karissa Hahn. On the technical front, the book features interviews with Roland Zavada (Kodak), Bob Doyle (Super8 Sound), Phil Vigeant (Pro8mm), Frank Bruinsma (Super8 Reversal Lab), and Tommy Madsen (Logmar Camera Solutions).

CCTV and Policing is the first major published work to present a comprehensive assessment of the impact of CCTV on the police in Britain. Drawing extensively upon empirical research, the volume examines how the police in Britain first became involved in public area surveillance, and how they have since attempted to use CCTV technology to prevent, respond to, and investigate crime. In addition, the volume also provides a detailed analysis of the legality of CCTV surveillance in light of recent changes to the Data Protection Act and the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Challenging many existing accounts of the relationship between the police and new surveillance technologies, CCTV and Policing breaks new ground in policing and surveillance theory, and argues that it is time for a major reassessment of both our understanding of how the police respond to technological change, and of the role played by such technologies in our society.

Are you an Apple TV owner looking to get the most out of your streaming media device? Perhaps you're looking for solutions to certain questions you've had about the device like how to use AirPlay, how to find channels, or other tips and tricks? Well, this guide is here to help you with all those questions and plenty of great tips to truly unleash the power of your Apple TV
Hi, I'm Shelby Johnson, a technology enthusiast and an Apple TV owner. I love the Apple TV streaming media player for its highly-functional entertainment value. I've used it and figured out many special tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your streaming media device.
I've developed this guide book to help you learn more about your device, including tips and tricks to really unlock and unleash the possibilities of your Apple TV device.
Here's just some of the great info in this book:
- Getting started with Apple TV
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You'll learn all of the above and more in this book which features screenshots straight from Apple TV and step-by-step instructions on the processes involved in unleashing more powerful features from the device This is a must-have eBook to get for any Apple TV user who wants to take their device to the next level
**Please note this book is for owners of the American version of the Apple TV sold in the United States and may not apply to versions of the device in other countries.**

Digitalisierung und Konvergenz der Medien erfassen zunehmend den klassischen Rundfunkbereich. Digitales Fernsehen und digitaler Horfunk sind seit Jahren in Vorbereitung und ihre Verbreitung beginnt, wenn auch zum Teil zogerlich. Die Einfuhrung neuer Dienste und neuartiger Geschaftsmodelle steht bevor, die auf der veranderten technologischen Basis zielgruppenspezifisch sowie teilweise im Verbund mit anderen Medien konzipiert werden. Sie sind fur die Zukunft von besonderem Interesse und bedurfen in dem komplexen medienpolitischen Gefuge unseres Landes besonderer Beachtung. Die ordnungspolitischen Notwendigkeiten und wirtschaftlichen Perspektiven dieser wichtigen Medieninnovationen wurden vom MUNCHNER KREIS mit hochrangigen Fachleuten und Verantwortungstragern erortert. Das vorliegende Buch enthalt die Ergebnisse. "

Die Digitalisierung, die uber kurz oder lang alle Gebiete der Kommunikations- und Informationstechnik erfasst, wird auch fur den Rundfunk (Fernsehen und Horfunk) von grosser Bedeutung sein. Neue digitale Ubertragungssysteme werden die technische Qualitat bei der Verbreitung von Programmen wesentlich verbessern und weitere Kapazitaten - insbesondere beim Satellitenrundfunk - erschliessen.
Der Kongress des "Munchner Kreises" bzw. die hieraus resultierende Veroffentlichung informiert uber den aktuellen Stand der Digitalisierung in Fernsehen und Horfunk und betrachtet die damit zusammenhangenden Fragen aus technischer, rundfunkpolitischer und industriepolitischer Sicht."

Video - mehr als ein neues Medium? Eine Ideologie? Nur eine zeitlich begrenz te Erscheinung in der sog., Alternativ-Szene'? Da die Konzeptionen der Videogruppen unterschiedlich sind, bleibt eine ein heitliche, klarende Antwort illusorisch. Fraglich wird es schon bei dem Reiz- aber auch Schlusselwort, alternativ'. Was heisst alternativ, zu was ist man alternativ? So wird bei einigen schon allein der Einsatz von Video als alternativ betrachtet, andererseits gibt es aber auch Gruppen, die sich auf historische und theoretische Ansatze beziehen und versuchen, diese weiterzuentwickeln (vgl. KOHLER, S. 9 f.). Um dem Dilemma in der Begriffsbesfunmung zu entgehen, soll im folgenden unter alternativer Medienarbeit eine Medienarbeit verstanden werden, die sich im weite sten Sinn von den etablierten Formen der Massenmedien abgrenzt, die "anders" ist. Nach dieser Definition stellt sich das Spektrum alternativer Medienarbeit so breit gefachert dar, dass darunter Gruppen wie z.B. die Medientechnische Werk statt Braunschweig, die mehr formal-emanzipatorische Ziele anstrebt, subsumiert werden kann, wie auch das Medienpadagogik-Zentrum Hamburg, dessen Konzep tion von politisch-padagogischer Medianarbeit auf die "Darstellung und Veran derung der gesamten Arbeits- und Lebensverhaltnisse der Menschen, auf die ge samtgesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit und deren Veranderung" abzielt. Die meisten Videogruppen verstehen ihre Arbeit als eine politische. Ausgangspunkt und einigendes Band der Video-Bewegung ist die Kritik an den herrschenden Massenmedien, an dem einseitigen Verhaltnis Sender/Empfanger."

What happens when screen time is all the time? In the early 1990s, the phrase “screen time” emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over, police, and judge in a low-grade moral panic. Now, “screen time” has become a metric not only for good parenting, but for our adult lives as well. There’s even an app for it! In the streaming era—and with streaming made nearly ubiquitous during COVID-19—almost every aspect of our day is mediated by these bright surfaces. Whether it was ever the real villain in the first place, or merely a convenient proxy for unaddressed familial, social, and institutional failures, screen time is now all the time. Avidly Reads Screen Time is a funny, insightful work of cultural criticism and history about how we define screens, and how they now define us. From Mad Men to iCarly, Vine to FaceTime, binge-watching to doom-scrolling, Phillip Maciak leads us on a sometimes heartwarming, sometimes harrowing tour of the media that brings us together and tears us apart.

In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many branding subfields. Armed with a wealth of methodologies, theoretical concepts, and sophisticated paradigms of case-studies analyses of the past, these scholars expand the field to new and exciting realms. With chapters on data, television, music, visuality, and transnationalism, this anthology aims to complement the literature of the field by asking answers to outstanding questions while proposing new ones: Whose stories have been adapted in the last few decades? Are films that are based on "true stories" simply adaptations of those real events? How do transnational adaptations differ from adaptations that target the same national audiences as the texts they adapt? What do long-running TV shows actually adapt when their source is a single book or novel? To attempt to answer these questions, New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation is organized in three parts. Part 1, "External Influences on Adaptation", delves into matters surrounding film adaptations without primarily focusing on textual analysis of the final cinematic product. Part 2, "Millennial TV and Franchise Adaptations", demonstrates that the contemporary television landscape has become fruitful terrain for adaptation studies. Part 3, "ElasTEXTity and Adaptation", explores different thematic approaches to adaptation studies and how adaptation extends beyond traditional media. Spanning media and the globe, contributors complement their research with tools from sociology, psychoanalysis, gender studies, race studies, translation studies, and political science. Kaklamanidou makes it clear that adaptation is vital to sharing important stories and mythologies, as well as passing knowledge to new generations. The aim of this anthology is to open up the field of adaptation studies by revisiting the object of analysis and proposing alternative ways of looking at it. Scholars of cultural, gender, film, literary, and adaptation studies will find this collection innovative and thought-provoking.