A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers Review

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(More customer reviews)This book ought to be re-titled: A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Dumb People. It's not that the book is bad - it isn't - it just lacks any real depth. Important broadcast topics like MPEG compression get skated over in a few lines. Curiously the book tells you more about audio CDs (which we all know about already) than MPEG!
Or perhaps my expectation was wrong. What I wanted was a view of the entire broadcasting industry from 10000 feet: what I got was the view from near-earth orbit with large areas obscured under cloud.
The book is small (21cm by 14cm) and printed in overly large type (like line 2 in an eyesight test). It reads like a pamphlet pretending to be a book - shallow, but somehow bloated out to fill 200 odd pages. Important areas, such as the Internet, video streaming, convergence, interactive TV, the role of software, etc, etc are completely missing.
As you can probably guess by now, I didn't really like the book and do not think it good value for money. In a specialized field like broadcasting there may not be anything better available, which disturbs me. Why is it that you can find 200 reasonable, but almost identical, books on, say, Java Programming, but not a single good general book on Broadcasting? Maybe it's because an author writing about broadcasting would have to start from scratch instead of reworking other people's books. But then that's the state of technical publishing today!

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Even people without engineering backgrounds need to havea general understanding of broadcast engineering issues. This is truefor broadcast managers, lawyers, financial analysts and engineeringtrainees who want to develop a knowledge base to launch a broadcastengineering career.This book is written for all of these people. It describes theengineering aspects of all broadcast facilities, including DigitalTelevision, in an easily understandable, non-technical fashion. Theinformation contained in this book will help you further yourunderstanding of broadcast engineering, and enhance your ability toperform the broadcast engineering-related functions of your job.

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