Table of Contents

1 Principles of monochrome television.
2 Colour transmission.
3 The UHF tuner.
4 The i.f. stage.
5 The video demodulator.
6 The monochrome video amplifier.
7 Synchronising separators.
8 Field timebase.
9 Line timebase.
10 The sound channel.
11 Colour burst processing.
12 Chrominance processing channel.
13 Power supply circuits.
14 Television display tubes.
15 Digital processing.
16 NICAM digital stereo and Dolby sound.
17 Microprocessor-controlled receivers.
18 Remote control.
19 The SCART socket.
20 Teletext.
21 Satellite television.
22 Digital TV broadcasting.
23 Digital TV receivers.
24 Testing digital TV receiver/decoder.
Appendix 1 List of functional symbols.
Appendix 2 Terrestrial analogue TV: main transmitting stations.
Appendix 3 Terrestrial digital TV: main transmitting stations.
Revision questions.

About the Author

K F Ibrahim is a Senior Lecturer at the College of North West London. He has vast experience in the field of TV and electronics and has written many books on the subject.