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Introduction
The development of television systems
- Mechanical systems
- Electronic systems
- Colour television
- Digital television
Principles of television systems
- The television picture
  - Human perception of motion
  - Image analysis
    - Flicker
    - Resolution
    - Picture shape
    - Scanning
  - The scanning pattern
    - Interlaced lines
    - Deflection signals
    - Synchronization signals
  - The picture signal
    - Wave form
    - Distortion and interference
    - Bandwidth requirements
- Compatible colour television
  - Basic principles of compatible colour: The NTSC system
  - European colour systems
    - PAL
    - SECAM
- Digital television
- Television transmission and reception
  - Transmission
    - Generating the colour picture signal
    - The carrier signal
    - The sound signal
    - The television channel
    - Broadcast television
    - Cable television
    - Direct broadcast satellite television
    - Teletext
  - Reception
    - Basic receiver circuits
    - Controls
- Television cameras and displays
  - Camera image sensors
    - Electron tubes
    - Charge-coupled devices
  - Displays
    - Picture tubes
      Basic structure
      Electron guns
      Deflection coils
      Shadow masks and aperture grilles
    - Liquid crystal displays
    - Plasma display panels
- Video recording
  - Magnetic tape
  - Video discs
  - Special techniques
  - Flying spot scanner
  - Motion-picture recording
    - The continuous projector
    - The intermittent projector

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