Television Technology Demystified

A Non-technical Guide

By: Aleksandar Louis Todorovic

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Paperback | 18 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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"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.
*Learn about complex technical concepts such as interlace scanning and digital compression without complex mathematics, diagrams, and drawings
*Understand the potentials and limitations of the various and changing production tools available

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"This book, from a respected and well-known figure in the broadcasting community, presents complex concepts in a simple and non-mathematical way." - Direct

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Introduction	p. ix
Development of Television Technology-A Sweep through History	p. 1
Optoelectric Transformation	p. 1
The Nipkow Disk	p. 3
The Cathode-Ray Tube	p. 5
The Birth of Television	p. 6
Light and the Human Eye	p. 11
Light in Television Production	p. 11
The Nature of Light and Human Vision	p. 12
White Light and Color Temperature	p. 14
Monochromatic Light	p. 16
Color Matching	p. 17
Measurement of Light	p. 20
Generating a Television Picture	p. 23
Picture Scanning	p. 23
Progressive and Interlaced Scanning	p. 26
The Basic Video Signal	p. 29
Color Television	p. 33
Splitting the White Light and the Selection of Primaries	p. 34
Picture Generation or Optoelectric Conversion	p. 37
Picture Display	p. 38
Transmission Path	p. 41
The Principle of Modulation	p. 43
The NTSC System	p. 46
The PAL System	p. 48
The SECAM System	p. 49
Transcoding and Standards Conversion	p. 52
Digital Television	p. 55
What Is a Digital Signal?	p. 55
Analog-to-Digital Conversion	p. 57
Why a Digital Signal?	p. 61
Digital Standards Conversion	p. 63
The International Digitization Standard	p. 65
Convergence	p. 70
Digital Compression as the Key to Success	p. 73
Why Compression?	p. 73
Compression Methods and Tools	p. 75
The MPEG-2 Bit-Rate Reduction Method	p. 80
Exploiting the Spatial Redundancy	p. 82
Exploiting the Statistical Redundancy-Entropy Coding	p. 82
Exploiting the Temporal Redundancy	p. 83
Compression Levels and Applications	p. 87
DV Compression	p. 88
The MPEG-4 Compression System	p. 90
Compression and Picture Quality	p. 94
Concatenation Loss	p. 95
Digital Audio Compression Methods	p. 97
Human Auditory System	p. 97
Analog-to-Digital Conversion of Audio Signals	p. 100
Digital Audio Compression	p. 102
Audio Compression Methods and Standards	p. 103
Exchanging Program Material as Bitstreams	p. 111
File Transfer	p. 112
Metadata	p. 116
Material Exchange Format-MXF	p. 122
AAF and Other File Formats	p. 125
Television Cameras	p. 131
The Optical System	p. 132
Sensors	p. 137
Pick-Up Tubes	p. 138
Solid-State Sensors	p. 140
Operating Principles of CCDs	p. 142
Camera Processing Circuitry	p. 148
Basic Quality Parameters	p. 151
Noise level	p. 151
Resolution	p. 152
Spectral characteristic	p. 153
Sensitivity	p. 153
Video Recording	p. 155
The Evolution of Videotape Recorders	p. 155
Basic Principles of Magnetic Recording	p. 158
Practical Recording Characteristics-Losses	p. 163
Specific VTR Problems and Their Solutions	p. 164
Videotape Recording Formats	p. 168
Videotape Recording Methods	p. 173
Azimuth Recording	p. 176
Digital Videotape Recording	p. 179
Tapeless Recording	p. 186
Video Editing	p. 193
The Development of Video Editing	p. 193
Linear Editing	p. 197
Time Code	p. 200
Nonlinear Editing (NLE)	p. 202
The Networked Production	p. 209
Basic Aspects of Networked Systems	p. 211
Media Asset Management Systems	p. 214
Integrated Digital Newsroom Operations	p. 217
Television Graphics	p. 225
Basic Technical Requirements	p. 225
Computer Generated Imaging	p. 228
Character Generators	p. 229
Graphics Workstations	p. 230
Virtual Sets	p. 233
Selecting a Computer Graphics System	p. 236
HDTV	p. 239
Development of the HDTV Concept and Technology	p. 239
HDTV Production Equipment	p. 243
HDTV and D-Cinema	p. 245
Acronyms and Selected Abbreviations	p. 251
Index	p. 261
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