Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville
Amazon Price: $10.36
Customer Review: 1841. A young man of 23 is looking for adventure, he signs a contract on a New England whaler and travels to the South Pacific. Life on the ship is not what he expected, the captain is a tyrant, the l...

HDTV For Dummies (For Dummies )
by Danny Briere, Pat Hurley
Amazon Price: $14.95
Customer Review: I'm usually pretty good with new technology and figuring it out. However, with HDTV and all it's marketing hype I knew I needed some additional help. I found a couple of really good HDTV forums on t...

Audio/Video Cable Installer's Pocket Guide (McGraw-Hill Pocket Reference)
by Stephen H. Lampen
Amazon Price: $19.77
Customer Review: I loved this book. It is perhaps more of a technical guide than a field reference but it is still is filled with lots of useful stuff and manages to be entertaining at the same time.

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Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series ...
by Charles Poynton
Amazon Price: $61.56
Customer Review: This is a very useful book if you work in the HDTV industry. It is a handy tool for me, as it points out concepts that are rather new and not so easy to understand even for skilled engineers, like HDT...

Digital Video Compression (with CD-ROM)
by Peter Symes
Amazon Price: $31.29
Customer Review: This is probably the best overall book on video compression on Amazon. I gave it five stars because of that. The only down side is that it is now a bit dated, with the creation of newer and better MPE...