Digital Video Electronics

This book is a modern day successor to Don Lancaster's "Cheap Video Cookbook" in that it is one of those rare accessible texts on the electronics of video technology that is useful to professional and layman alike. Like many books on digital video, it starts out describing the human vision system and then video signals and standards including the various color spaces. Where it is unique is after chapter two it goes into details on the electronics of modern digital video equipment without getting bogged down in complex math, although there are equations and formulas where appropriate. The book even has a chapter on the proper PCB layout of video electronics. At the end of the book there are twelve non-trivial electronic design projects to test and expand your knowledge. There are plenty of useful figures, block diagrams, and actual circuit diagrams throughout this book. I would recommend this to anyone curious about digital video electronics with a desire to get their hands dirty with electronic implementation details. I would not recommend this book to video processing researchers or computer science students since this is probably not what you are looking for. The reader should already have a fundamental grasp of electronics and maybe even some exposure to the fundamentals of video signals.