Signal Distribution in Tomorrow's Television Plant

Numerous new video formats are emerging, each posing different problems for the television plant engineer and equipment designer. Many of these formats involve time compression with its increased bandwidth requirement, while others involve higher-resolution signals (with or without time compression) that require bandwidths many times those of NTSC or PAL signals. This article examines the effects of return loss, line equalization, cable-length limitations, and high-bandwidth design techniques. Emphasis is placed on the need to preserve signal transparency in handling the composite signals presently in common use while accommodating, in the same facility, the requirements of HDTV and MAC signals of various types.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1986-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J03220