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  2. Test card - Wikipedia

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    Test cards typically contain a set of patterns to enable television cameras and receivers to be adjusted to show the picture correctly (see SMPTE color bars).Most modern test cards include a set of calibrated color bars which will produce a characteristic pattern of "dot landings" on a vectorscope, allowing chroma and tint to be precisely adjusted between generations of videotape or network feeds.

  3. SMPTE color bars - Wikipedia

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    An extended version of SMPTE Color Bars signal, developed by the Japanese Association of Radio Industries and Businesses as ARIB STD-B28 and standardized as SMPTE RP 219:2002 [15] (High-Definition, Standard-Definition Compatible Color Bar Signal) was introduced to test HDTV signal with an aspect ratio of 16:9 that can be down converted to a ...

  4. Philips circle pattern - Wikipedia

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    The content and layout of the original colour circle pattern was designed by Danish engineer Finn Hendil (1939–2011) [1] in the Philips TV & Test Equipment laboratory in Amager (moved to Brøndby Municipality in 1989) near Copenhagen under supervision of chief engineer Erik Helmer Nielsen in 1966–67, largely building on their previous work ...

  5. Indian-head test pattern - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] It was sold as a night-light from 1997 to 2005 by the Archie McPhee company, [13] reminiscent of the times when a fairly common late-night experience was to fall asleep while watching the late movie, only to awaken to the characteristic sine wave tone accompanying the Indian-head test pattern on a black-and-white TV screen. The test ...

  6. Cable television - Wikipedia

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    A coaxial cable used to carry cable television onto subscribers' premises A set-top box, an electronic device which cable subscribers use to connect the cable signal to their television sets. Presented unit is a Cisco RNG200N for QAM digital cable television system used in North America.

  7. Analog television - Wikipedia

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    Signal reception is invariably done via a superheterodyne receiver: the first stage is a tuner which selects a television channel and frequency-shifts it to a fixed intermediate frequency (IF). The signal amplifier performs amplification to the IF stages from the microvolt range to fractions of a volt.

  8. Television channel frequencies - Wikipedia

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    VHF analog TV ceased in New Zealand on 1 December 2013. Channels 10 and 11 weren't added until the late 1980s (except Indonesia). VHF analog TV channel 1A is only used in Indonesia. VHF is currently no longer used for television in Indonesia (except in some regions until 2022) and only UHF is used for both analog and digital television, as in ...

  9. Modulation error ratio - Wikipedia

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    A signal sent by an ideal transmitter or received by a receiver would have all constellation points precisely at the ideal locations, however various imperfections in the implementation (such as noise, low image rejection ratio, phase noise, carrier suppression, distortion, etc.) or signal path cause the actual constellation points to deviate ...