Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Television fundamentals -- Scanning -- Interlacing -- Synchronisation pulses -- Composite video waveform -- Common image format -- Active lines -- Aspect ratio -- Pixels and bandwidth -- Video bandwidth -- Television broadcasting -- Modulation -- Frequency spectrum, PAL channel -- Channel allocation -- Frequency spectrum, NTSC channel -- Chapter 2. Colour television -- Light and colour -- The sensation of colour -- Primary colours -- The colour triangle -- Saturation and hue -- Chromaticity diagram -- Colour temperature -- Principles of colour transmission -- Frequency interleaving -- Quadrature amplitude modulation -- NTSC colour components -- NTSC refresh rate -- Composite colour signal -- Colour burst -- The standard colour bar display -- Gamma-correction -- Weighting factors -- PAL colour system -- Chapter 3. Digital television -- Principles of digital video broadcasting -- Digitising the TV picture -- SDTV sampling rate -- Video sampling -- 4:2:2 sampling structure -- 4:1:1 sampling structure -- 4:2:0 sampling structure -- The bit rate -- Chapter 4. MPEG encoding -- Video MPEG-2 coding -- Video data preparation -- Temporal compression -- Group of pictures -- Block matching -- Predicted and difference frames -- Bidirectional prediction -- Spatial compression -- The discrete cosine transform -- Quantising the DCT block -- Zigzag scanning of the DCT matrix -- Coding of DCT coefficients -- Buffering -- The complete DCT coder -- Forward prediction coder-decoder, codec -- GOP construction -- Chapter 5. High definition television -- Why HDTV? -- HDTV common interface format -- The road to MPEG-4/H.264/AVC -- MPEG-4 profiles -- H.264/AVC features -- Intra-frame (spatial) prediction -- Intra-blocks and modes -- Size and mode selection -- Intra-prediction operation -- AVC motion compensation.

Motion compensation block sizes -- Motion vector prediction -- New transforms and quantisation -- Adaptive de-blocking filter -- New entropy coding technology -- Summarised features of AVC -- Chapter 6. Audio encoding -- Principles of MPEG-1 audio -- MPEG audio basic elements -- The full Layer II audio coder -- Layer III coding -- Pre-echo -- Full Layer III audio coder -- Advanced audio coding -- MPEG-2 AAC -- MPEG-4 audio -- MPEG-4 AAC -- Low-delay AAC -- Surround sound -- Multi-channel formats -- Perception of sounds in space -- Chapter 7. MPEG-2 transport stream -- Transport stream multiplexing -- MPEG-2 PES packet -- Time stamps -- Program clock reference -- Transport stream packet -- Null transport packets -- Transport packet header -- Programme-specific information -- Transport stream multiplexing -- Re-multiplexing -- Chapter 8. Channel encoding -- Scrambling -- Forward error correction -- Error correction -- FEC processing -- Modulation -- Phase shift keying -- Quadrature amplitude modulation -- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing -- Single-frequency network -- Coded OFDM -- 8K/2K COFDM modes -- High definition terrestrial television -- Satellite channel encoder -- Terrestrial channel encoder -- Chapter 9. Video re-production -- Overview -- Display units -- The cathode ray tube -- Extra high tension -- Monochrome tube -- Screen size -- Raster geometry -- Scan velocity modulation -- Beam modulation -- Colour receiver tubes -- Purity -- Convergence -- The shadowmask tube -- The in-line colour tube -- The trinitron tube -- The PIL tube -- Chapter 10. Plasma panels -- Introduction to flat panel displays -- Resolution: flat panel versus CRT -- Plasma operation -- Address display separated -- Driving the panel -- Scanning: sequential and interlaced -- Sub-field coding -- Plasma panel brightness -- Dual scan -- Selective erase addressing.

Sustain-during-erase -- Greyscale and colours -- False contours -- Time compression -- Adaptive time compression -- Sub-field splitting -- Non-binary sub-field coding -- Dynamic brightness control -- Black level drive -- Sub-field generation -- Alternate lighting of surfaces -- Enhanced-ALiS -- 4-phase sub-field drive -- Pioneer's Waffle rib and T-shaped structured panel -- Plasma panel faults -- Drive faults -- Image burn -- Chapter 11. Liquid crystal display (LCD) -- Polarisation -- Principles of operation of LC cell -- Reflective and transmissive -- The TN transmissive LCD -- Normally white and normally black -- Passive- and active-matrix LCDs -- TFT cell drive -- Response time -- Polarity inversion -- Greyscale and colour generation -- Panel drive -- The backlight assembly -- CCFT parameters -- Tube brightness control -- The d.c.-a.c. inverter -- Lamp error detection -- Adaptive transmissive scaling -- LCD panel faults -- Drive faults -- Chapter 12. DLP and SED -- Principles of DLP display -- Greyscale generation -- Bit splitting -- DMD structure -- DMD operation -- DMD addressing cycle -- Multiplexed addressing -- Generating colour -- The rainbow effect -- The three-chip DLP -- Principles of SED panel -- Chapter 13. Television receivers CRT-type -- The analogue TV receiver -- The front end -- RF oscillator -- Mixer-oscillator -- Complete tuner -- The phase-locked loop -- Synthesised tuning -- The IF stage -- The IF response curve -- The vision detector -- Synchronous demodulator -- Tuner IC package -- The sync separator -- Flywheel sync separator -- Sandcastle pulse -- Field timebase -- Field output stage -- Line timebase and drive -- S-correction -- Line output transformer -- Chapter 14. Television receivers: colour processing -- Colour burst processing -- Colour decoding -- The comb filter -- Comb filter delays -- U and V separation.

Colour difference demodulation -- Matrix network -- Beam limiting -- Signal-processing IC package -- RGB output stage -- Chapter 15. DC power generation -- CRT television power requirements -- Linear regulators -- Thyristor-controlled rectifier -- Switched-mode power supplies -- High-frequency chokes -- Start-up and soft start -- Standby supply -- Self-oscillating power supply -- Resonant converters -- Chapter 16. Flat panel television receivers -- Video formatting -- Scan-rate conversion -- Image scaling -- De-gamma correction and error and diffusion -- Digital video interface -- Low-voltage differential signalling -- PanelLink -- Transition minimised differential signalling -- DVI connector pin-out -- High-definition multimedia interface -- Architecture of HDMI -- HDMI operation -- HDMI encoding -- Operating modes -- Content protection, HDCP -- HDMI connectors -- Chip count -- Philips 2-chip solution -- Panasonic GC3 2-chip solution -- Samsung single-chip solution -- Plasma panel power generation -- Power factor correction -- Soft-switching resonant d.c.-d.c. converters -- Principle of operation of resonant converters -- Steady-state analysis of a basic ZCS resonant converter -- Zero voltage switching -- Energy recovery -- Fault finding on plasma television -- Pixel defects -- Picture faults -- DC power failure -- Fault finding in an LCD television receiver -- Faulty CCF tube -- The classic stuck in standby fault (plasma and LCD) -- Chapter 17. TV sound, mono and NICAM -- TV FM mono system -- Receiver circuit -- Frequency demodulation -- De-emphasis -- NICAM -- 14-to-10 digital companding -- Interleaving -- Framing -- NICAM reception -- DQPSK decoder -- NICAM decoder -- Multi-sound processor -- Multi-standard MSP -- Audio amplification -- Chapter 18. The digital TV reception -- The digital receiver/decoder of set-top-box -- System overview.

DVB satellite channel decoder -- DVB terrestrial channel decoder -- OFDM demodulation -- Transport demultiplexing and MPEG decoding -- The I2S serial sound bus -- SPDIF digital interface -- UHF modulator -- The integrated digital television -- Flat panel iDTV -- The HD decoder box -- The HD ready television receiver -- Testing the digital TV decoder box -- Aerials and dishes -- The boot-up sequence -- Testing channel decoder -- Testing the transport/MPEG decoder -- Memory faults and their symptoms -- Chapter 19. Projection systems -- CRT-based projection systems -- Microdisplay-based systems -- The illumination assembly -- DMD-based projectors -- HTPS-based systems -- Colour filter HTPS -- Colour filterless 3-panel HTPS projector -- Pros and cons of HTPS projectors -- Liquid crystal on silicon systems -- The three-PBS LCoS system -- ColorSelectTM LCoS-based systems -- Merits and demerits of LCoS projection systems -- Other projector technologies -- The 3-panel HTPS projector block diagram -- Three-dimensional video display -- 3D LCD panels -- Power supply requirements -- Chapter 20. DVD -- DVD construction -- DVD capacity -- Storage capacity -- Recording sectors -- Rotation speed -- Data transfer -- Triple-layer DVD -- DVD encoding process -- Video encoding -- Audio encoding -- Dolby digital (AC-3) encoding -- Linear PCM -- PES packet construction -- Forward error correction„DVD/HD DVD -- Non-return-to-zero encoding -- Eight-to-sixteen modulation (EFM+) -- DVD playback system -- The optical pickup head -- Focus depth and numerical aperture -- The photodiode detector assembly -- Focus error -- Tracking error -- The tracking and focus two-axis device -- Compatible pickup -- Signal processing and control -- The RF processor -- Servo control -- The error signals -- Playback start-up routine -- CD/DVD detection -- Focus search.

Single/dual-layer detection.