Basic TV Technology
eBook - ePub

Basic TV Technology

Digital and Analog

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Basic TV Technology

Digital and Analog

About this book

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: http://www.insightmedia.info/news/

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781138426061
eBook ISBN
9781136068133
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. THE ATOM AND ELECTRICITY
  10. BASIC CIRCUITS
  11. UNITS OF MEASUREMENT (1)
  12. UNITS OF MEASUREMENT (2)
  13. FIELDS (INDUCTION) AND NOISE
  14. ABBREVIATIONS
  15. CATHODE RAY TUBES (CRTS)
  16. NEED FOR INTERLACE SCANNING
  17. BLANKING
  18. WAVEFORM DISPLAY
  19. CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES
  20. AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL (1)
  21. AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL (2)
  22. ANALOG AND DIGITAL
  23. COLOR SYSTEMS
  24. HOW THE EYE SEES LIGHT (1)
  25. HOW THE EYE SEES LIGHT (2)
  26. DIGITAL ENCODING RATIOS
  27. CODECS
  28. COMPOSITE ENCODING
  29. COLOR CRTS
  30. PLASMA DISPLAY SCREEN
  31. LCD SCREENS
  32. ANALOG SYNC GENERATORS
  33. ANALOG SYNC GENERATOR SIGNALS (1)
  34. ANALOG SYNC GENERATOR SIGNALS (2)
  35. VECTORSCOPES
  36. PAL
  37. ANALOG SYNC FLOW DIAGRAMS
  38. CAMERA FLOW DIAGRAMS
  39. COMBINING SYNC AND CAMERA FLOW DIAGRAMS
  40. VIDEO SWITCHERS
  41. SWITCHER APPLICATIONS
  42. PRODUCTION SWITCHER FLOW DIAGRAM
  43. SWITCHER TRANSITIONS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
  44. SPECIAL EFFECTS KEYS — LUMINANCE KEYS
  45. SPECIAL EFFECTS KEYS — CHROMA KEYS
  46. COMPOSITE VERSUS COMPONENT VIDEO
  47. COLOR DIFFERENCE COMPONENT VIDEO
  48. DIGITAL SPECIAL EFFECTS
  49. DIGITAL INTERPOLATION
  50. ANALOG VIDEOTAPE RECORDING TECHNOLOGY
  51. ANALOG VIDEO RECORDING STANDARDS AND FORMATS
  52. OTHER TRACKS AND LOCKUP (1)
  53. OTHER TRACKS AND LOCKUP (2)
  54. TIME BASE ERROR
  55. EXTERNAL CAUSES OF TIME BASE ERROR
  56. TIME BASE ERROR CORRECTION
  57. TIME BASE CORRECTORS (1)
  58. TIME BASE CORRECTORS (2)
  59. LARGER ANALOG SYNC PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
  60. OTHER ADVANTAGES OF TBCS AND FRAME SYNCHRONIZERS
  61. DIGITAL VIDEOTAPE RECORDERS
  62. DIGITAL VIDEO SERVERS
  63. DISC-BASED RECORDERS
  64. EDITING ANALOG VIDEOTAPE
  65. THE EDITING PROCESS (1)
  66. THE EDITING PROCESS (2)
  67. TYPES OF EDIT1S
  68. EDITING METHODS — MANUAL
  69. EDITING METHODS — CONTROL TRACK COUNTERS
  70. SMPTE TIME CODE EDITING
  71. OFF-LINE AND ON-LINE EDITING
  72. EDITING BY COMPUTER
  73. PROBLEMS OF TRADITIONAL EDITING
  74. NONLINEAR EDITING
  75. VIDEO COMPRESSION
  76. SPATIAL COMPRESSION
  77. TEMPORAL COMPRESSION
  78. MPEG COMPRESSION STANDARD
  79. COMPUTER GRAPHICS FOR VIDEO
  80. CHARACTER GENERATORS
  81. CREATING IMAGERY AND EFFECTS
  82. THE DIGITAL STUDIO
  83. OPEN ARCHITECTURE EQUIPMENT VERSUS DEDICATED EQUIPMENT
  84. DRAWBACKS OF OPEN ARCHITECTURE EQUIPMENT
  85. HIGH-DEFINITION TV
  86. ATSC HIGH-DEFINITION BROADCAST STANDARD
  87. STANDARD DEFINITION DIGITAL TELEVISION (SDTV)
  88. AUDIO FOR VIDEO
  89. SURROUND SOUND
  90. PROFESSIONAL AND CONSUMER AUDIO
  91. COMBINING AUDIO COMPONENTS
  92. MICROPHONES, MIXERS, AND LOUDSPEAKERS
  93. SOUND RECORDERS FOR VIDEO
  94. DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS (DAW)
  95. FURTHER READING
  96. GLOSSARY
  97. Index