Analogue Video: Table of Contents

• Biography (7)
• Preface (8)

Chapter 1: The Universe of Video

• (12)

Chapter 2: Television Standards

• 2.1 History and Prehistory of Television (15)
• 2.2 What standard to choose? (21)
• 2.3 The waveforms of synchronisms (23)
  • 2.3.1 Horizontal & Vertical pulses (24)
  • 2.3.2 Interlace 2:1 (25)
  • 2.3.3 Broad & Equalisation pulses (25)
  • 2.3.4 Vertical frequency (26)
  • 2.3.5 Aspect ratio (27)
  • 2.3.6 Video Bandwidth (28)
• 2.4 Sync Pulse Generators (SPGs) (29)
  • 2.4.1 Single chip SPGs (30)
  • 2.4.2 Multiple chip SPGs (35)
  • 2.4.3 Non-standard SPGs (39)
• 2.5 Sync extraction (40)
• 2.6 A curious television scanning alternative! (44)

Chapter 3: Colour Television Standard Systems

• 3.1 The Human Eye (46)
• 3.2 From eye to its electronic representation (47)
• 3.3 NTSC & PAL Encoding (52)
• 3.4 SECAM System (59)
• 3.5 The relative merits and demerits of TV standards (60)
  • 3.5.1 NTSC/525-lines pros (61)
  • 3.5.2 NTSC/525-lines cons (61)
  • 3.5.3 PAL/625-lines pros (61)
  • 3.5.4 PAL/625-lines cons (62)
  • 3.5.5 SECAM/625-lines pros (62)
  • 3.5.6 SECAM/625-lines cons (62)
• 3.6 Other analogue colour television systems (64)
• 3.7 Colour Encoders (65)
  • 3.7.1 Digital Inputs Encoder Chips (65)
  • 3.7.2 Analogue Input Encoder Chips (68)
• 3.8 NTSC & PAL Colour Decoding (76)
• 3.9 SECAM decoding (79)
• 3.10 Colour Decoder Chips (81)
  • 3.10.1 Analogue Decoders (81)
  • 3.10.2 SECAM decoders (89)
  • 3.10.3 Digital & Pseudo-Digital Decoders (91)
  • 3.10.4 Digivision TV chipset (94)
• 3.11 Video conversion (96)
  • 3.11.1 From PAL S-Video to CVBS and vice versa (97)
  • 3.11.2 From YUV to RGB and vice versa (98)
• 3.12 Some final considerations (99)

Chapter 4: Pattern & monoscope generators

• 4.1 The Colour Test Pattern Bars Generator (102)
• 4.2 Patterns for TV set calibration (108)
• 4.3 Multiburst Generator (110)
• 4.4 An automatic RGB Colour Changer (113)
• 4.5 Test Cards & Monoscopes (114)
• 4.6 Software based Test Card Generators (117)
• 4.7 Two final remarks (121)

Chapter 5: Television display systems

• 5.1 A little bit of history (124)
• 5.2 Display Devices (126)
  • 5.2.1 The Oscilloscope (127)
  • 5.2.2 The Waveform Monitor (130)
  • 5.2.3 A LED Oscilloscope (131)
  • 5.2.4 The Vectorscope (133)
  • 5.2.5 The Baird's 'Radiovision', the first industrial mechanical television set (134)
  • 5.2.6 The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) or Kinescope (135)
  • 5.2.7 Other types of CRTs (142)
  • 5.2.8 The Field Emission Display (FED) (143)
  • 5.2.9 The Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display (SED) (144)
  • 5.2.10 The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) (144)
  • 5.2.11 The Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMLCD) (145)
  • 5.2.12 The HDR-TV Display (146)
  • 5.2.13 The Plasma Display Panel (PDP) (146)
  • 5.2.14 The Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Display (147)
  • 5.2.15 The Thick-Film Dielectric Electroluminescent (TDEL) Display (148)
  • 5.2.16 The WOWvx Display (149)
  • 5.2.17 The Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) (150)
  • 5.2.18 Large screen displays (150)
  • 5.2.19 Multiple screen displays (153)
• 5.3 Things to Think About (154)

Chapter 6: Video Cameras

• 6.1 Tube-based Camera Devices (156)
  • 6.1.1 The first experimental camera tubes (157)
  • 6.1.2 Further developments on camera tubes (158)
  • 6.1.3 1, 2, 3 or even 4-tube Colour Cameras (161)
  • 6.1.4 Pickup tube features (164)
• 6.2 Solid-state Pickup Devices (165)
  • 6.2.1 The CCD (Charge Coupled Device) (165)
  • 6.2.2 CMOS image sensors (169)
• 6.3 Features common to all Cameras (170)
• 6.4 Some final considerations (172)

Chapter 7: Video recorder systems

• 7.1 Video recording chronological history (174)
• 7.2 Video cassette recorder mechanisms (183)
• 7.3 Magnetic playback and recording techniques (187)
• 7.4 Footage transferring (189)
• 7.5 Analogue Anticopy Protection (191)
  • 7.5.1 How does the anticopy system work? (192)
  • 7.5.2 How to eliminate protection pulses (193)
  • 7.5.3 Description of the circuit (193)
  • 7.5.4 The output stage & Power Supply (195)
  • 7.5.5 Assembling & Soldering (195)
  • 7.5.6 Calibration (196)
  • 7.5.7 Inside a box (197)
  • 7.5.8 Bad thoughts (198)
• 7.6 Some conclusive considerations (198)

To be continued (200)

Bibliography (201)

Index (205)