ABSTRACT

Basic TV Technology is the essential basic guide to the fundamentals underlying all television and video systems, written for students and nontechnical professionals. You don't need to have a math or science background in order to understand this explanation of how the principal pieces of equipment work, what their functions are, and how they are integrated to form a complex video system. An understanding of this material will be necessary for you to succeed in the real world, where one person often has to perform many different roles and functions within a production. Armed with some basic technical background information, you'll be more effective at figuring out new applications and at problem-solving.

The fourth edition of Basic TV Technology has been updated to reflect the industry shift to digital video and includes new information on compression, television standards, LCD displays, HD, and equipment.

This book features the accessible Media Manual format, in which every topic is covered in two pages: one of explanatory text and one of figures. 

For more information on TV technologies, go to: https://www.insightmedia.info/news/

chapter |2 pages

The Atom and Electricity

chapter |2 pages

Basic Circuits

chapter |2 pages

Units of Measurement (1)

chapter |2 pages

Units of Measurement (2)

chapter |2 pages

Fields (Induction) and Noise

chapter |2 pages

Abbreviations

chapter |2 pages

Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs)

chapter |2 pages

Need for Interlace Scanning

chapter |2 pages

Blanking

chapter |2 pages

Waveform Display

chapter |2 pages

Charge-Coupled Devices

chapter |2 pages

An Introduction to Digital (1)

chapter |2 pages

An Introduction to Digital (2)

chapter |2 pages

Analog and Digital

chapter |2 pages

Color Systems

chapter |2 pages

How the Eye Sees Light (1)

chapter |2 pages

How the Eye Sees Light (2)

chapter |2 pages

Digital Encoding Ratios

chapter |2 pages

CODECs

chapter |2 pages

Composite Encoding

chapter |2 pages

Color CRTs

chapter |2 pages

Plasma Display Screen

chapter |2 pages

LCD Screens

chapter |2 pages

Analog Sync Generators

chapter |2 pages

Analog Sync Generator Signals (1)

chapter |2 pages

Analog Sync Generator Signals (2)

chapter |2 pages

Vectorscopes

chapter |2 pages

PAL

chapter |2 pages

Analog Sync Flow Diagrams

chapter |2 pages

Camera Flow Diagrams

chapter |2 pages

Combining Sync and Camera Flow Diagrams

chapter |2 pages

Video Switchers

chapter |2 pages

Switcher Applications

chapter |2 pages

Production Switcher Flow Diagram

chapter |2 pages

Special Effects Keys — Luminance Keys

chapter |2 pages

Special Effects Keys — Chroma Keys

chapter |2 pages

Composite versus Component Video

chapter |2 pages

Color Difference Component Video

chapter |2 pages

Digital Special Effects

chapter |2 pages

Digital Interpolation

chapter |2 pages

Analog Videotape Recording Technology

chapter |2 pages

Other Tracks and Lockup (1)

chapter |2 pages

Other Tracks and Lockup (2)

chapter |2 pages

Time Base Error

chapter |2 pages

External Causes of Time Base Error

chapter |2 pages

Time Base Error Correction

chapter |2 pages

Time Base Correctors (1)

chapter |2 pages

Time Base Correctors (2)

chapter |2 pages

Digital Videotape Recorders

chapter |2 pages

Digital Video Servers

chapter |2 pages

Disc-Based Recorders

chapter |2 pages

Editing Analog Videotape

chapter |2 pages

The Editing Process (1)

chapter |2 pages

The Editing Process (2)

chapter |2 pages

Types of Edits

chapter |2 pages

Editing Methods — Manual

chapter |2 pages

SMPTE Time Code Editing

chapter |2 pages

Off-Line and On-Line Editing

chapter |2 pages

Editing by Computer

chapter |2 pages

Problems of Traditional Editing

chapter |2 pages

Nonlinear Editing

chapter |2 pages

Video Compression

chapter |2 pages

Spatial Compression

chapter |2 pages

Temporal Compression

chapter |2 pages

MPEG Compression Standard

chapter |2 pages

Computer Graphics for Video

chapter |2 pages

Character Generators

chapter |2 pages

Creating Imagery and Effects

chapter |2 pages

The Digital Studio

chapter |2 pages

High-Definition TV

chapter |2 pages

ATSC High-Definition Broadcast Standard

chapter |2 pages

Audio for Video

chapter |2 pages

Surround Sound

chapter |2 pages

Professional and Consumer Audio

chapter |2 pages

Combining Audio Components

chapter |2 pages

Microphones, Mixers, and Loudspeakers

chapter |2 pages

Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

chapter |3 pages

Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

chapter |2 pages

Further Reading