ContentsPreface ixAcknowledgments xiSection 1. Basics 11 Introduction 3500 years of print development 3100 years of the moving image 4The Web meets television 5Convergence 7What is streaming? 7Applications 9How this book is organized 10Summary 102 IP networks and telecommunications 13Introduction 13Network layers 14Telecommunications 25The local loop 30Summary 383 The World Wide Web 40Introduction 40WWW 42Web graphics 44Proprietary tools 48Web servers 48Summary 514 Video formats 52Introduction 52Scanning 53Color space conversion 56Digital component coding 61Videotape formats 65Time code 72Interconnection standards 74High definition 76Summary 775 Video compression 78Introduction 78Compression basics 79Compression algorithms 80Discrete cosine transform 84Compression codecs 87MPEG compression 89Proprietary architectures 98Summary 1016 Audio compression 102Introduction 102Analog compression 103Digital audio 104The ear and psychoacoustics 110The human voice 112Lossy compression 114Codecs ...