Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Newnes Guide to TV and Video Technology; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Basic television; Image analysis; Scanning; The camera tube; Target operation; The video signal; Change-coupled devices (CCDs); Picture reproduction; Bandwidth; Modulation; Frequency modulation; Phase modulation; Pulse-code modulation (PCM); Sidebands; Transmission bandwidth; Chapter 2. Light and colour; Colour filtering; Complementary colours; The chromaticity diagram; Luminance, hue and saturation; The human eye; Contrast ratio; Gamma correction.
  • Chapter 3. Reading and writing in three coloursThe sequential approach; Compatible colour television; Three-tube camera; Deriving a luminance signal; Single-tube cameras; CCD colour cameras; Colour-difference signals; Colour-difference signal bandwidth; The encoder; Composition of the chroma signal; 'Quadrature' and degrees of timing; Colour modulation; Integrating luminance and chrominance; Suppression of subcarrier; Composite colour signal; The deciphering process at the receiver; G
  • Y and RGB matrixing; Display; Chapter 4. The PAL system; The colour burst; NTSC and PAL.
  • Phase Alternation, LineV chroma detector switching and synchronising; Swinging burst; Hanover bars; PAL phase identification; From PAL to MAC; Chapter 5. Transmission and reception; UHF bands and channels; Transmitter links; Polarisation and ERP; Vision transmitter; Sound transmitter; Vestigial sidebands; UHF reception; Aerial bandwidth; The Yagi array; Aerial installation; Log-periodic aerials; Down-lead and matching; Chapter 6. Colour decoding; Chroma channel; The PAL function; Burst and reference signal channels; The phase detector; Ident pulses; Video section; An IC decoder.
  • RGB video stagesAutomatic grey-scale tracking; RGB output amplifiers; Decoder summary; Chapter 7. Colour display devices; The three-gun picture tube; Shadowmask; Arranging the phosphor dots; Tube construction; The PIL tube; Purity; Converging the beams; Dynamic convergence; PIL deflection yoke; 20AX system; 30AX; 45 AX; FST; The Trinitron; Degaussing; Geometric distortion; Grey-scale tracking; Focusing; Colour-tube performance; Projection TV; Light valves; Flat-screen colour; Chapter 8. The colour receiver; The tuner; IF amplifier; Vision AGC; Vision detection; Intercarrier sound.
  • Sync separatorTimebases; Advanced CTV; Teletext and enhanced text; High-definition and high-fidelity TV; More than 625 lines; Aspect ratio; High-definition TV programme sources; High-definition displays; High-definition TV summary; Chapter 9. MAC encoding and satellite TV; Time-division multiplex; Time-compression of analogue signals; Multiplexed Analogue Components (MAC); MAC sound and sync; MAC decoding; MAC interfacing; Subcarrier versus MAC signals; Satellites; Satellite power; The satellite as an 'active reflector'; Head-end convertors; DBS service areas; Dish installation.