Advanced Televison Systems

Advanced Television Systems offers a thorough explanation of the new TV technology and programs that will soon burst into our living rooms. The book helps readers understand how our current television will evolve over the next 20 years and how it will change us and our world.

This timely book includes a comprehensive, clear, and interesting examination of the industries planning to deliver TV and the strategies adopted by the major media corporations to encourage the usage of new technologies. It also has the most complete list of advanced TV test sites in print.


High definition, digital, interactive, compressed, connected, switched television will change the way we work and live. Now readers can learn what the insiders know about the emerging television system, including the terms, the technologies, the players, the programming, and the markets.

Joan M. Van Tassel received her doctorate at the Annenberg School for Communications/USC. She is an educator and author on new communication technologies, writing for publications such as The Hollywood Reporter, WiReD, and Videomaker


A thorough but easy-to-read explanation of the new TV technology
A comprehensive examination of the diverse industries planning to deliver TV and image-based communication systems
An explanation of marketing strategies adopted by major media corporations to encourage usage of the new technologies