Topic:Television engineering

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Contents 1 Department news 2 Active participants 3 Learning projects 4 Learning Project Summary 5 Content summary 6 Goals 7 Learning materials 7.1 Planned materials 7.2 Texts 7.3 Lessons 7.3.1 Case studies 7.4 Assignments 7.4.1 Activities 7.4.2 Readings 8 References 9 Resources

Welcome to the Television Engineering Department!

This is a content development group for developing shared learning resources that pertain to Television and Broadcast from Engineering and Technology aspects.

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• 16 July 2007 - Department founded!

[edit] Active participants

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[edit] Learning projects

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[edit] Learning Project Summary

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  • A good understanding and mastery of Basic Electronics;
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[edit] Goals

This learning project offers learning activities to familialrize you with the technical concepts of television engineering.

• Deployment of television facilities - overview;
• Deploying networks in the TV plant

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[edit] Planned materials

Television (index and main article)

• Scope
• Reference Materials
• Course Introduction
• Aspects of Television Engineering
• The business of content production and delivery
• Physical plant infrastructure
• The cable plant
• Monitoring, test, and measurement
• Commonality with networking infrastructures
• Mission critical - system redundancy
• Signal flow management
• Documentation
• Definitions

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• Lesson 1: Scope

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[edit] Assignments

Discuss how Television technology and programming evolved into the Television broadcasting industry.

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• John Watkinson

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Additional helpful readings include:

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Industry advocacy and standards organizations

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) [1]

Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) [2]

Audio Engineering Society (AES) [3]

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) [4]

Trade journals and publications

The SMPTE Journal

Broadcast Engineering

TV Technology