Delivery: Online
Estimated Length: 2 seat hours
Price: $195
Created specifically for the broadband industry, Delivering Video teaches the broadband cable customer care professional what they need to know about digital video including standards, formats, and services. After successful course completion, the cable professional will be better equipped to communicate with the customer about their video services and sell these services to the customer as a result of an increased understanding of the services and the technology used to deliver them to the customer.
Completion Time:
The estimated completion time for this course is two hours. The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Benefits:
- receive an industry-recognized NCTI certificate of graduation
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- describe the National Television System Committee’s and Advanced Television Systems Committee’s roles in establishing television standards
- distinguish the characteristics of standard, enhanced and high definition television
- describe the next-generation high definition television technologies
- identify the different digital television signal types and how they are delivered
- describe the digital terminal adapter and its purpose
- explain how access to broadband cable television content is controlled
- describe video-on-demand service
- describe digital video recorder service
- describe whole home entertainment
Outline:
Understanding Television Standards
Visiting the origins of television standards, introducing the national television system committee standards, elevating television to the next step, recognizing digital television standards organizations and discussing the conversion from analog-to-digital television
Identifying Television Formats
Describing standard definition television, recognizing enhanced definition television, defining high definition television and looking beyond high definition television
Accessing Digital Television
Distinguishing digital television tuning, introducing the digital terminal adapter and controlling access to broadband cable television content
Examining Digital Television Services
Defining different television services and examining the evolution of video-on-demand