CONTENTS
Section 1 - Introduction to composite video Page 2
1.1 What is composite video?
1.2 Brief history of NTSC PAL and SECAM
1.3 Quadrature modulation
1.4 NTSC encoding
1.5 PAL encoding
1.6 SECAM encoding
1.7 Digital encoding
Section 2 - Spectral analysis of composite video Page 15
2.1 Sampling theory
2.2 Aperture effect
2.3 Two and three dimensional sampling spectra
2.4 Spectrum of NTSC
2.5 Spectrum of PAL
2.6 Colour framing and Sc-H phase
Section 3 - Composite decoding Page 31
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Simple Y/C separation
3.3 Field combs
3.4 Line combs
3.5 Adaptive filters
3.6 Multi-dimensional filtering
3.7 Chroma demodulators
3.8 NTSC demodulation
3.9 PAL demodulation
3.10 Digital decoders