Video Technology General information Page

Index

Glossaries

• Audio and Video Terminology
• Closed Circuit Television Theory and Applications Glossary of Terms
• Comprehensive Machine Vision Glossary of Terms
• DVD Term Glossary
• Glossary of Terms for Video Essentials
• Glossary of Technical Terms of European Laserdisc Group
• Glossary of video terms from TODAY'S VIDEO book
• Multimedia Glossary - very complete video term dictionary from Video Demystified book
• Videonics Video Glossary - designed to be a learning tool, as well as a reference
• Video Terms

History

• Early U. S. Television Chronology
• The Birth of Television
• TV's tested history

FAQs

• rec.video FAQ - answers to common video questions
• rec.video.desktop FAQ
• rec.video.satellite.misc FAQ

Organizations

• Imaging Science Foundation
• National Association of Broadcasters
• Society of Broadcast Engineers
• Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Key concepts

• A Video Tutorial - video signal basics and test signals described
• Basics of analogue video recording
• Basic Video - introduction to video signals
• Broadcast TV - learning package for TV systems information
• Conventional Analog Television - An Introduction - two lectures of material
• Display and video devices - introduction to operation of video monitors
• Engineering Primer on Video Signal
• Explaining Aspect Ratios
• Fields: Why Video Is Crucially Different from Graphics
• Is it Broadcast Quality?
• Motion portrayal, eye tracking, and emerging display technology - paper explores how the temporal characteristics of image capture and image display devices interact with eye tracking
• Signal to Noise Ratio - The arch enemy of picture clarity on a monitor is noise, this is electronic noise that is present to some extent in all video signals and manifests itself as snow or graininess over the whole picture on the monitor
• Stereo/Multiview Image/Video Coding - papers, discussion forum and links
• Vision Science in WWW virtual library

Color info

• "Black Level" and "Picture"
• How we see color with out eyes
• Imaging Science Foundation Reference Library - CIE coordinates examples
• Poynton's Color Technology Page - Gamma and Color FAQs
• Preventing illegal colors

Video system hardware

• Engineering Primer - basics of Composite Video Signal, Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope
• Hardware for Audio/Video Conferencing - pointers to hardware commonly used for MBone-style events
• How Television Works - television operation described in simple way
• Multimedia Central - The "One-Stop Page" Specifically For Engineers Designing Multimedia ICs or Systems by Keith Jack
• Poynton's Video Engineering page - very good general video information site
• Video cabling links

Handbooks

• Video University Free Articles & Guides

Basics of video signals

Here is some introductory material on video signals. Check those if you are looking for basic information on video signals.

• Basic Video - introduction to video signals
• Basic Principles of Video - good introduction chapter from A Technical Introduction to Digital Video book in pdf format
• Fields: Why Video Is Crucially Different from Graphics

Other links

• Extron Electronics Technical Papers - many good video papers
• On Cables and Connections - information on video wiring from Kramer Electronics, pdf file
• Television and video links - companies, technical, standards

Related pages

• Video technology page