Authors: Aleksandar Louis Todorovic
ISBN-13: 9780240806846, ISBN-10: 0240806840
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: New Edition
"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 understandable.
*Learn about complex technical concepts such as interlace scanning and digital compression without complex mathematics, diagrams, and drawings
*Understand the potentials and limitations of the various and changing production tools available
1 | Development of television technology - a sweep through history | 1 |
2 | Light and the human eye | 11 |
3 | Generating a television picture | 23 |
4 | Color television | 33 |
5 | Digital television | 55 |
6 | Digital compression as the key to success | 73 |
7 | Digital audio compression methods | 97 |
8 | Exchanging program material as bitstreams | 111 |
9 | Television cameras | 131 |
10 | Video recording | 155 |
11 | Video editing | 193 |
12 | The networked production | 209 |
13 | Television graphics | 225 |
14 | HDTV | 239 |