Video Demystified A Handbook for the Digital Engineer Fourth Edition by Keith Jack

A few short years ago, the applications for
video were somewhat confined—analog was
used for broadcast and cable television, VCRs,
set-top boxes, televisions and camcorders.
Since then, there has been a tremendous and
rapid conversion to digital video, mostly based
on the MPEG-2 video compression standard.
Today, in addition to the legacy DV,
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio and video compression
standards, there are three new highperformance
video compression standards.
These new video codecs offer much higher
video compression for a given level of video
quality.