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  2. SMPTE color bars - Wikipedia

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    SMPTE ECR 1-1978 (SDTV) In a SMPTE color bar image, the top two-thirds of the television picture contain seven vertical bars of 75% intensity. In order from left to right, the colors are white or gray, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and blue. [ 18] The choice of white or gray depends on whether that bar's luminance is 100% or not.

  3. Television set - Wikipedia

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    A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or as a computer monitor. It combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular ...

  4. Television - Wikipedia

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    Television. Television ( TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.

  5. Cathode-ray tube - Wikipedia

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    Cathode-ray tube. The only visible differences are the single electron gun, the uniform white phosphor coating, and the lack of a shadow mask. A cathode-ray tube ( CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. [2]

  6. Broadcast television systems - Wikipedia

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    Analog television system by nation Analog color television encoding standards by nation. Every analog television system bar one began as a black-and-white system. Each country, faced with local political, technical, and economic issues, adopted a color television standard which was grafted onto an existing monochrome system such as CCIR System M, using gaps in the video spectrum (explained ...

  7. NTSC - Wikipedia

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    NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941. [ 1] In 1961, it was assigned the designation System M. It is also known as EIA standard 170. [ 2] In 1953, a second NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed for color television broadcast compatible with the existing ...

  8. List of television formats and genres - Wikipedia

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    List of adult television channels: (Rated shows) Adventure Series: Animated series: A television show which is traditionally, stop-motion or 2D or 3D computer animation . Cartoon series: Anthology series: Art: shares some of the same traits of art films. Television shows such as David Lynch 's Twin Peaks series and BBC 's The Singing Detective ...

  9. Plasma display - Wikipedia

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    Plasma displays are bright (1,000 lux or higher for the display module), have a wide color gamut, and can be produced in fairly large sizes—up to 3.8 metres (150 in) diagonally. They had a very low luminance "dark-room" black level compared with the lighter grey of the unilluminated parts of an LCD screen.