Slater, Jim. <br/><br/>
Modern television systems :  to HDTV and beyond / 
Jim Slater. 
 - London :  Pitman,  1991. 
 - viii, 308 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Principles of television systems, and a little history (Page-1), The search for a compatible color system (Page-15), NTSC-the world's first practical color television system  (Page-23), The development of PAL and SECAM (Page-35), MAC-the first of a new generation of television systems (Page- 56), Recommendation 601-one world standard; digital video and the world digital studio standard (Page- 108), The long road towards a better system-higher definition on the horizon (Page-127), Japan's Hi-vision the world's first HDTV system (Page-145), Compatible approaches to HDTV (Page- 161), American approaches to HDTV (Page-188), Progress towards a world standard-the 1990s (Page-276), HDTV with no standards required -a glimpse into the future (Page-286). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0273031228 : 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92190142 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>High definition television--Standards.<br/>Signal processing.<br/>Television--Picture quality.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.388,SLA