Book Description
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.
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE ATOM AND ELECTRICITY
- The Parts of the Atom
- The Flow of Electrons through Metals
- BASIC CIRCUITS
- Direct Current (DC)
- Alternating Current (AC)
- UNITS OF MEASUREMENT (1)
- Voltage
- Current
- Power
- Resistance
- Mathematical Symbols and Formulas
- UNITS OF MEASUREMENT (2)
- Frequency
- AC Frequency Impedance
- FIELDS (INDUCTION) AND NOISE
- Fields (Induction)
- Noise
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Kilo
- Mega
- Giga
- Milli
- Micro
- Nano
- CATHODE RAY TUBES (CRTS)
- Interlace Scanning
- Progressive Scanning
- NEED FOR INTERLACE SCANNING
- BLANKING
- Horizontal Blanking
- Vertical Blanking
- WAVEFORM DISPLAY
- CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES
- CCD Layout and Operation
- Broadcast-Quality Requirements
- AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL (1)
- What Is Digital?
- What Computers Do
- AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL (2)
- Bits and Bytes — Binary Numbering System
- ANALOG AND DIGITAL
- A to D Conversion
- Sampling and Quantizing
- D to A Conversion
- COLOR SYSTEMS
- Color versus Black and White
- Additive and Subtractive Colors
- Complementary Colors
- HOW THE EYE SEES LIGHT (1)
- Color Temperature
- HOW THE EYE SEES LIGHT (2)
- Filters
- Black Balance
- White Balance
- DIGITAL ENCODING RATIOS
- From Black and White to Color
- Digital Responses to This Situation
- CODECS
- COMPOSITE ENCODING
- Home Video Cameras
- COLOR CRTS
- Convergence
- PLASMA DISPLAY SCREEN
- How It Works
- LCD SCREENS
- ANALOG SYNC GENERATORS
- ANALOG SYNC GENERATOR SIGNALS (1)
- Drive Pulses
- Blanking Pulses
- Sync Pulses
- Color Burst
- ANALOG SYNC GENERATOR SIGNALS (2)
- Combining Sync with Video
- VECTORSCOPES
- Reading the Vectorscope
- Color Bar Display
- PAL
- ANALOG SYNC FLOW DIAGRAMS
- Distribution Amplifiers
- CAMERA FLOW DIAGRAMS COMBINING SYNC AND CAMERA
- FLOW DIAGRAMS
- Out-of-Phase Cameras
- VIDEO SWITCHERS
- Vertical Interval Switchers
- Component Switchers
- Digital Switchers
- Special Effects
- SWITCHER APPLICATIONS
- Production and Edit1ing Switchers
- On-Air Switchers
- Routing Switchers
- PRODUCTION SWITCHER FLOW DIAGRAM
- Switcher Buses
- Switcher Outputs
- SWITCHER TRANSITIONS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
- Wipes
- SPECIAL EFFECTS KEYS — LUMINANCE KEYS
- Linear or Transparent Keys
- SPECIAL EFFECTS KEYS — CHROMA KEYS
- COMPOSITE VERSUS COMPONENT VIDEO
- Problems of Composite Video
- Component Video
- Y/C
- COLOR DIFFERENCE COMPONENT VIDEO
- DIGITAL SPECIAL EFFECTS
- Compressions
- Pushes
- Flips
- Rotations
- Other Special Effects
- DIGITAL INTERPOLATION
- Manipulation
- Interpolation
- ANALOG VIDEOTAPE RECORDING TECHNOLOGY
- Recorders
- Videotape
- Recording Heads
- ANALOG VIDEO RECORDING STANDARDS AND FORMATS
- Audio versus Video Recording
- Helical Video Recording
- OTHER TRACKS AND LOCKUP (1)
- Sound and Control Tracks
- VTR Lockup
- Capstan Lock
- OTHER TRACKS AND LOCKUP (2)
- Vertical Lock (Capstan Servo)
- Frame Lock
- Horizontal Lock
- TIME BASE ERROR
- EXTERNAL CAUSES OF TIME BASE ERROR
- Gyroscopic Time Base Error
- TIME BASE ERROR CORRECTION
- TIME BASE CORRECTORS (1)
- What a Time Base Corrector Does
- How a TBC Works
- Horizontal Sync as a Clock
- TIME BASE CORRECTORS (2)
- D to A Conversion
- Video Proc Amp
- Window of Correction
- LARGER ANALOG SYNC PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
- Nonsynchronous Sources
- Frame Synchronizer
- OTHER ADVANTAGES OF TBCS AND FRAME SYNCHRONIZERS
- Dynamic Tracking Heads
- Freeze Frames
- TBCs, VTRs, and Production
- DIGITAL VIDEOTAPE RECORDERS
- DV Video
- DIGITAL VIDEO SERVERS
- Problems of Videotape
- Video Servers
- DISC-BASED RECORDERS
- EDITING ANALOG VIDEOTAPE
- Physical Cutting and Splicing
- Electronic Edit1ing
- THE EDITING PROCESS (1)
- THE EDITING PROCESS (2)
- TYPES OF EDITS
- Assemble Edits
- Insert Edits
- EDITING METHODS — MANUAL
- Manual Editing
- EDITING METHODS — CONTROL TRACK COUNTERS
- SMPTE TIME CODE EDITING
- OFF-LINE AND ON-LINE EDITING
- Off-Line Editing
- On-Line Editing
- EDITING BY COMPUTER
- Drop Frame/Non-Drop Frame Editing
- PROBLEMS OF TRADITIONAL EDITING
- NONLINEAR EDITING
- VIDEO COMPRESSION
- SPATIAL COMPRESSION
- Entropy Reduction
- Entropy Encoding
- TEMPORAL COMPRESSION
- MPEG COMPRESSION STANDARD
- COMPUTER GRAPHICS FOR VIDEO
- Originating Computer Graphics
- Interface between People and Machines
- CHARACTER GENERATORS
- CREATING IMAGERY AND EFFECTS
- Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI)
- Digital Video Effects
- THE DIGITAL STUDIO
- OPEN ARCHITECTURE EQUIPMENT VERSUS DEDICATED EQUIPMENT
- DRAWBACKS OF OPEN ARCHITECTURE EQUIPMENT
- HIGH-DEFINITION TV
- Production HDTV Standards versus Broadcast
- HDTV Standards
- ATSC HIGH-DEFINITION BROADCAST STANDARD
- STANDARD DEFINITION DIGITAL TELEVISION (SDTV)
- AUDIO FOR VIDEO
- The Early Years
- Mono and Stereo
- SURROUND SOUND
- 5.1 Stereo
- PROFESSIONAL AND CONSUMER AUDIO
- Impedance
- Balanced and Unbalanced Audio
- COMBINING AUDIO COMPONENTS
- Line and Mic Levels
- Analog and Digital
- Professional and Consumer Equipment
- MICROPHONES, MIXERS, AND LOUDSPEAKERS
- Microphones
- Mixers
- Loudspeakers
- SOUND RECORDERS FOR VIDEO DAT
- DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS (DAW)
- FURTHER READING
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX