Basic TV Technology, 4th Edition

Introduction

This is not a TV production textbook but a book for TV production people. It doesn't deal with TV production techniques because there are already several fine books that cover those subjects. I see no reason to write what others have already done a better job of writing. Rather, this book deals with two interrelated subjects. I will show you how the various pieces of video equipment are integrated to form a complex video system. But to understand that, you must first have some knowledge of how the equipment works and what goes on inside it. I will explain that as well.

As TV equipment becomes more complex and sophisticated, it becomes more important to understand how that equipment works.This is especially true in the worlds of instructional ...