Television

Television

Any device used to transmit and recieve moving images, usually accompanied by sound.

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Attenuator

Consumer electronics; Television

A device that is used to weaken the strength of the signal supplied to it.

Automatic slope control (ASC)

Consumer electronics; Television

A circuit that senses two signal amplitudes and control both the overall gain and the gain slope through the stage so that the levels of both signals are constant at the output port.

Bandwidth

Consumer electronics; Television

The useable range of frequencies of a given device or system.

Baseband

Consumer electronics; Television

The originating signal information before it is modulated onto a radio frequency carrier.

Aural carrier

Consumer electronics; Television

In analogue television, the portion of channel radio energy carrying the sound.

Audio

Consumer electronics; Television

A reference to electronically reproduced sound or the equipment processing it.

pilot carrier

Consumer electronics; Television

In CATV, it refers to the carrier waves used as references by system devices to allow automatic compensation adjustments of carrier amplitudes either equally or by relative frequency.