Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television from the television set to the programming and transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far seeing" (Greek "tele," meaning far, and Latin "visus," meaning seeing).
The origins of what would become today's television system can be traced back as far as the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Nipkow in 1884. All practical television systems use the fundamental idea of scanning an image to produce a time series signal representation. That representation is then transmitted to a device to reverse the scanning process. The final device, the television, relies on the human eye to integrate the result into a coherent image.
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Video Technology Page - Features numerous links to television and video technology web-sites. Organized by subject.
Abbreviations, acronyms and TLAs often used in television broadcasting and reception - Definition of abbreviations, acronyms and TLAs often used in television.
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Broadcast Net - Comprehensive subjects for the broadcast industry
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Broadcast Papers - Business and technical papers for the broadcast industry.
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Broadcaster magazine - Broadcaster provides the Canadian communications industry with in-depth, and wide-ranging coverage of industry issues and new technologies.
Meta Description: [ Broadcaster provides the Canadian communications industry with in-depth, and wide-ranging coverage ofindustry issues and new technologies. ]
Close-up by Joe Fedele - An Internet magazine for broadcasting professionals.
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Closed Captioning FAQ - Closed Captioning Frequently Asked Questions, by Gary Robson.
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Doug Lung's RF Technology Page - TV transmitter and RF engineering.
Electrical Engineering Training - Covers a number of topics relating to RF transmission.
ether.net - Features information, links and the history of television in the UK.
FCC Title 47 Regulations - Code of Federal Telecommunication Regulations in HTML and PDF formats.
Grass Valley Dictionary - Dictionary of electronics terms from the Grass Valley Group.
How Projection Television Works - Fully-illustrated unbiased tutorial describes how projection TVs form a small image on a device inside the projector - either a CRT or LCD - and then shine that image onto a large screen located elsewhere.
Meta Description: [ Projection television can provide an HD picture at a range of sizes and prices. Learn about front and rear projections TVs and read HDTV reviews. ]
How Television Works - Easy to read article that describes how television works.
Meta Description: [ Television is often taken for granted, but the box that brings TV shows into your home is an amazing device. Find out what's going on inside a TV set. ]
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Introduction to Analog Television - Lecture on the theory of analog television.
Moving Pictures - A television production manual.
NTSC-TV - Tutorials on television basics, including broadcast engineering.
Meta Description: [ Tutorials on NTSC color television, covering from the antenna to the crt. ]
PAL NTSC Film Converter - Several reviews about the television standards of PAL and NTSC are represented. Especially the refresh rates are explained in detail. Run time conversions between different medium types are also discussed.
Meta Description: [ Information to convert TV films and movies. NTSC PAL FILM converter. Review of the different refresh rates of PAL, NTSC and motion picture films. Info about the conversion of television standards, formats and DVDs. ]
Tech-Notes - News and other matters of interest specific to the Broadcasting Engineer.
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TV Production Course - Free, on-line TV Production Course covering the basics of lighting, video, audio, and editing. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
Meta Description: [ Free, Comprehensive TV Production Course with 70 modlues, more than 800 color illustrations, different types of interactive testing, and more than 100 associated files. ]
TV Technology - The on-line magazine for video professionals
Meta Description: [ TV Technology.com - The Digital Television Authority - Serving the Broadcast, Cable, Production, Post Production Business and New Media Markets ]
UK and Eire Television Reception - coverage maps and technical links regarding TV reception in the British Isles.
Unofficial FCC Document Locator - Also includes lots of charts, links.
Video De-mystified - Side-bar menu features standards, tutorials and interesting links.
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Video Measurement Tutorials - from Tektronix
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Video Recording Formats - Compares and contrasts most video formats.
Video University - Video Engineering Primer
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Williamson-labs television - Graphics and formulas dominate this site which covers major aspects of video broadcast engineering.
Meta Description: [ tutorials on color television, NTSC, table of contents ]
World Analog Television Standards and Waveforms - Details of television transmission standards used around the world.
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World Television Standards - A listing of analog broadcast formats from around the world.
Worldwide TV Standards - A Web Guide - Comparison of the various analog TV standards.
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