Television and Video Technology

• Television fundamentals
• Scanning
• Interlacing
• Synchronisation pulses
• Composite video waveform
• Common image format
• Active lines
• Aspect ratio
• Pixels and bandwidth
• Video bandwidth
• Television broadcasting
• Modulation
• Frequency spectrum, PAL channel
• Channel allocation
• Frequency spectrum, NTSC channel
• Colour television
• Light and colour
• The sensation of colour
• Primary colours
• The colour triangle
• Saturation and hue
• Chromaticity diagram
• Colour temperature
• Principles of colour transmission
• Frequency interleaving
• Quadrature amplitude modulation
• NTSC colour components
• NTSC refresh rate
• Composite colour signal
• Colour burst