AMERICAN 525-LINE TV SYSTEM

The transmitted television signal must comply with strict standards established by the Federal Communication Commission. The standards ensure that uniformly high quality monochrome and colour picture and sound will be transmitted. Standards are also required so that television receiver can be designed to receive these standard signals and thus provide a correct reproduction of the original picture and sound.

The details of the FCC standard are:

  1. Each VHF and UHF television station is assigned a channel that is 6 MHz wide. The composite video signal must fit into the 6 MHz bandwidth. The composite signal includes the video carrier, one vestigial sideband for the video signal, one complete sideband for the video signal, ...

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