The purpose of this work is to provide a resource for the various production aspects of DTV, and, at the same time it should allow a discussion of differing techniques, ideas and approaches to DTV.

Over the coming years more stations will switch to DTV transmitters, cable programmers will begin to offer wide-screen and HDTV signals via satellite, cable systems will begin to deliver digital television programming to homes, and non-broadcast applications from Digital Cinema to corporate presentations will explore ways these technoligies can impact their business. Much of the process of creating images for the screen will be similar to the processes of the past and many of the processes will be radically different. The purpose of this book is to provide a resource for the various production aspects of DTV, and, at the same time it should allow a discussion of differing techniques, ideas and approaches to DTV.