Television Electronics: Theory and Servicing

The eighth edition of Television Elec- - Chapter 7: Principles of Monochrome tronics: Theory and Servicing (formerly Television Receivers. This is a basic Television Simplified), has been completely block diagram explanation of the redesigned and updated to the current state operation cf monochrome television of the art. receivers. It also includes the test The purpose of the book is to prepare equipment and tests used for mono- electronics technicians and engineers for a chrome television receivers. career in some phase of the television indus- - Chapter 10: Frequency Synthesis, try and every effort has been made to ensure Automatic Fine Tuning, and Remote the books usefulness. Control. This chapter includes dis- This book covers in detail the operation, cussions of binary numbers, digital circuitry, and trouble-shooting of solid-state frequency dividers, the phase-locked color and monochrome television receivers. loop, micro-computers, and frequency Some coverage of vacuum-tube television synthesis push-button tuning. The receivers is also presented. Other current topics of Automatic Fine Tuning and and important topics that are covered in- Remote Control are also updated and clude (1) cable television, (2) video-tape and covered in detail. video-cassette recorders, (3) video games, (4) integrated circuits, (5) communications The material on vertical deflection oscil- satellites, (6) color television signal gener- lators has been placed in a separate chapter ation, (7) digital circuitry, and (8) closed- (Chapter 21), which also includes a digital circuit television.