Digital video is everywhere! The engineers creating HDTV, mp3 players, and smart phones and their components are in need of essential information at a moment's notice. The Instant Access Series provides all the critical content that a digital video engineer needs in his or her daily work. This book provides an introduction to video as well as succinct overviews of analog and digital interfaces along with signal processing. This book is filled with images, figures, tables, and easy to find tips and tricks for the engineer that needs material fast to complete projects to deadline.*Tips and tricks feature that will help engineers get up and running fast and move on to the next issue*Easily searchable content complete with tabs, chapter table of contents, bulleted lists, and boxed features*Just the essentials, no need to page through material not needed for the current project