PREFACE

The purpose of this book is to present a reasonably full picture of the systems, formats and technology of contemporary TV and video equipment, along with reference data, primarily for the practising service engineer. There has been tremendous diversification of home entertainment and educational products; embodied in them are techniques and artifices drawn from all branches of electronics as well as high-precision optics and mechanics.

Like the equipment it describes, the book encompasses a mixture of analogue and digital systems, and several chapters are wholly given over to digital topics, reflecting the trend in consumer equipment. The colour picture-tube is the main ‘analogue’ component in current TV equipment, and its peripheral ...

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