Television technology demystified : a non-technical guide / Aleksandar Louis Todorovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todorović, Aleksandar Louis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Equipment and supplies.

Television.

Television broadcasting.

Television--Production and direction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal/Elsevier, c2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

""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

Contents:

Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; 1 Development of Television Technology - A Sweep through History; Optoelectric Transformation; The Nipkow Disk; The Cathode-Ray Tube; The Birth of Television; 2 Light and the Human Eye; Light in Television Production; The Nature of Light and Human Vision; White Light and Color Temperature; Monochromatic Light; Color Matching; Measurement of Light; 3 Generating a Television Picture; Picture Scanning; Progressive and Interlaced Scanning; The Basic Video Signal; 4 Color Television

Splitting the White Light and the Selection of PrimariesPicture Generation or Optoelectric Conversion; Picture Display; Transmission Path; The Principle of Modulation; The NTSC System; The PAL System; The SECAM System; Transcoding and Standards Conversion; 5 Digital Television; What Is a Digital Signal?; Analog-to-Digital Conversion; Why a Digital Signal?; Digital Standards Conversion; The International Digitization Standard; Convergence; 6 Digital Compression as the Key to Success; Why Compression?; Compression Methods and Tools; The MPEG-2 Bit-Rate Reduction Method

Exploiting the Spatial RedundancyExploiting the Statistical Redundancy-Entropy Coding; Exploiting the Temporal Redundancy; Compression Levels and Applications; DV Compression; The MPEG-4 Compression System; Compression and Picture Quality; Concatenation Loss; 7 Digital Audio Compression Methods; Human Auditory System; Analog-to-Digital Conversion of Audio Signals; Digital Audio Compression; Audio Compression Methods and Standards; 8 Exchanging Program Material as Bitstreams; File Transfer; Metadata; Material Exchange Format-MXF; AAF and Other File Formats; 9 Television Cameras

The Optical SystemSensors; Camera Processing Circuitry; Basic Quality Parameters; 10 Video Recording; The Evolution of Videotape Recorders; Basic Principles of Magnetic Recording; Practical Recording Characteristics-Losses; Specific VTR Problems and Their Solutions; Videotape Recording Formats; Videotape Recording Methods; Azimuth Recording; Digital Videotape Recording; Tapeless Recording; 11 Video Editing; The Development of Video Editing; Linear Editing; Time Code; Nonlinear Editing (NLE); 12 The Networked Production; Basic Aspects of Networked Systems; Media Asset Management Systems

Integrated Digital Newsroom Operations13 Television Graphics; Basic Technical Requirements; Computer Generated Imaging; Character Generators; Graphics Workstations; Virtual Sets; Selecting a Computer Graphics System; 14 HDTV; Development of the HDTV Concept and Technology; HDTV Production Equipment; HDTV and D-Cinema; Acronyms and Selected Abbreviations; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786610621743

9781136068539

1136068538

9781136068546

1136068546

9781280621741

1280621745

9780080457062

0080457061

OCLC:

476001141