Television Technology Demystified A Non-technical Guide [Paperback]

Television Technology Demystified is written for non-technical television production professionals. Journalists, program producers, camera persons, editors, and other television professionals need to know how equipment works, which performance levels are achievable, how to evaluate the technical quality of picture and sound, and other aspects of production; this book presents these and other essential concepts in a simple and non-mathematical way. Aleksandar-Louis Todorovic, a highly respected and well-known figure in the broadcasting community, has succeeded in making complex technology understandable.1. Introduction
2. History of the development of television technology
*Discovery of photoelectric effects
*First theoretical projects
*Scanning
*John Logie Baird
*Beginning of the first regular television transmittals
3. Light and the human eye
*Character of light
*Measurement of light
*Primaries
*Colour triangle
*Additive and subtractive mixing
4. Generating a television picture
*Optoelectrical conversion
*Scanning
*Interlace vs. Progressive scanning
*Video signal parameters
5. Colour television
*Generation of colour images
*Displays
*Transmission
6. Colour video signals
*Primaries
*Components
*Composite signals
7. Analogue colour television standards
*NTSC
*PAL
*SECAM
8. Digital television
*What is the meaning of digital ?
*Analogue to digital conversion
*Why a digital signal?
*The international standardisation process&llsH