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"A splendid World of Satellite TV!"

-- Arthur C. Clarke

THE Digital Satellite TV Handbook is an entire course in digital satellite TV technology for installers and technicians, complete with self-grading exams and supporting IBM-PC compatible software on CD-ROM. List price: $49.95.

The World of Satellite TV (WSTV) provides all the facts that every enthusiast needs to know about buying, installing, operating and maintaining satellite TV systems. The technical details of satellite TV receivers and IRDs, feedhorns, antennas, and LNBs are thoroughly explained in a straight forward style that is accessible to everyone. What's more, readers are guided through the complex world of signal encryption and MPEG-2 digital video compression. List price: $24.95. Go to Amazon.com for a discount:

The World of Satellite TV includes detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to install, operate, test and repair DTH systems. Also included: encapsulated overviews of MMDS and mini-cable (SMATV) signal distribution systems. Our on-line excerpt on DTV describes the evolution of TV transmission standards in the USA, from the inception of broadcast television itself, to the long anticipated arrival of the new digital TV (DTV) broadcasting standard for the United States. Click on the icon below to access this selection from the book: 

Mark Long has endeavoured not simply to apply a fixed formulae but to publish an inviting and informative book. -- Tele-satellit magazine

The text is written in a clear, easily understood style that has plenty for the technical layman as well as more detailed information for the experienced satellite TV professional. -- Broadcast Engineering News

...a great deal of useful and technical information about satellite TV in this part of the world. -- ELECTRONICS Australia

Thoroughly comprehensive, yet written in a down home style, this book takes the mystery out of the more technical aspects of buying, installing, operating and maintaining your home earth station. -- Popular Communications magazine

The World of Satellite TV is a worthwhile contribution to the satellite TV industry....it should be welcomed by anyone who doesn't feel completely secure in the blizzard of terms and knowledge that surrounds the subject. -- Satellite Orbit magazine

 

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