The Television Production Process -- What Television Production Is All About -- The Basic Television System -- The Expanded Studio and Electronic Field Production Systems -- System Elements of Studio Production -- The Studio System in Action -- System Elements of Field Production -- Production Elements -- The Camera -- Lighting -- Audio -- Videotape Recording -- The Switcher -- Postproduction Editing -- Special Effects -- Studios, Master Control, and Support Areas -- The Television Studio -- Physical Layout -- Major Installations -- The Studio Control Room -- Program Control -- Image Control -- Audio Control -- Lighting Control -- Master Control -- Program Input -- Program Storage -- Program Retrieval -- Studio Support Areas -- Scenery and Properties -- Makeup and Dressing Rooms -- Analog and Digital Television -- Analog and Digital Television -- Basic Image Creation -- Basic Colors of the Video Display -- What Digital is all About -- Why Digital? -- The Difference Between Analog and Digital -- The Process of Digitization -- Benefits of Digital Television -- Quality -- Computer Compatibility and Flexibility -- Signal Transport -- Compression -- Aspect Ratio -- The 4 [times] 3 Aspect Ratio -- The 16 [times] 9 Aspect Ratio -- DTV Scanning Systems -- Progressive and Interlaced Scanning -- The Progressive Scanning System -- The Interlaced Scanning System -- DTV Systems -- The 480p System -- The 720p System -- The 1080i System -- Flat-Panel Displays -- Plasma Display Panel -- Liquid Crystal Display.