This course will present the recent advances made in digital broadcasting and communications. The objective is to provide students with an opportunity to study and analyze current issues, topics, and trends related to web-based technology use in digital media broadcasting. The topics include: multimedia objects and related models, multimedia compression techniques and standards, multimedia interfaces, multimedia storage techniques, multimedia communication and networking, multimedia synchronization techniques, multimedia information systems, scheduling in multimedia systems, and video indexing and retrieval techniques, introduction to web technologies for digital media, technology and digital media broadcast.