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Transmission Media

Abstract

Once the image has been captured by a lens and a camera and then converted into an electrical signal, it is further taken to a switcher, a decoder, a recording device or a monitor display. In order for the video signal, audio and control data to get from point A to point B, it has to go through some kind of transmission medium. This applies to both, analog and digital signals.

Key Words

coaxial cable; fiber optics cable; infrared link; microwave link; network; RF open-air transmission; telephone line; twisted pair cable

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Once the image has been captured by a lens and a camera and then converted into an electrical signal, ...

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