CHAPTER 8

COLOR TELEVISION CIRCUITS

AND SIGNALS
END CHAPTER QUESTIONS
Prepared By: Daniel Jonathan S. Tamisen

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a.) What are the phosphor colors for the tricolor tube?

ANSWER: RGB

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a.) What color when added to yellow, will produce white?
ANSWER: WHITE
b.) What color is the complement of Blue?
ANSWER: YELLOW
c.) Green, when added to Blue, produces?
ANSWER: CYAN

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a.) Red is the of the color
ANSWER: HUE
b.) Pink is different from red in
ANSWER: SATURATION
c.) Red has a
ANSWER: LOW LUMINANCE

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a.) The input to the matrix includes
ANSWER: R, G, and B VIDEO SIGNALS
b.) The output to the matrix includes
ANSWER: Y LUMINANCE and TWO COLOR-MIXTURE SIGNALS
c.) The Y signal has

G video
ANSWER: 59 PERCENT OR 59%

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a.) Name the three output of the matrix.
ANSWER: Y, I and Q
b.) The two inputs to the modulator are?
ANSWER: I and OSCILLATOR
c.) What it the phase angle for the Q modulator?
ANSWER: 90
d.) Which stage has inputs of Y + C signals?
ANSWER: MULTIPLEXER
e.) Which resistor has I and Q modulation?
ANSWER: Rc

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a.) What is the frequency of the Chroma bandpass filter?
ANSWER: 3.58 MHz
b.) Name the two inputs to the R Y demodulator?
ANSWER: C and Oscillator (r y)
c.) What is the phase angle between B Y and R Y?
ANSWER: 90

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What is the value of the Y voltage for the following bars?
a.) White:
ANSWER: 1.00
b.) Red:
ANSWER: 0.39
c.) Green:
ANSWER: 0.59
d.) Blue:
ANSWER: 0.11
e.) Yellow:
ANSWER: 0.89

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a.) The hue of the B-Y video signal is mainly
ANSWER: BLUE
b.) The R-Y phase is in

with B-Y.
ANSWER: QUADRATURE

c.) The B-Y and R-Y can be combines to form

ANSWER: G-Y.
d.) The B-Y is

out of phase with the color sync burst.

ANSWER: 180

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a.) What is the frequency of the individual cycles in the color sync burst?
ANSWER: 3.58 MHz
b.) What is the repetition rate for the complete group of the color sync
burst?
ANSWER: 15,750 Hz

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a.) What is the hue of the color sync burst?
ANSWER: YELLOW-GREEN
b.) What is the phase difference between the color sync burst and the B-Y
signal?
ANSWER: 180
c.) What is the phase angle of the R-Y video?
ANSWER: 90

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Calculate the values for the yellow and blue bars in the following:
a.) Y signal:
ANSWER: 0.89 and 0.11
b.) Q signal:
ANSWER: -0.39 and 0.31
c.) C signal:
ANSWER: 0.45 and 0.45

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a.) Compared with 100 percent saturation, a desaturated color have
for the Y signal and
for the C signal.
ANSWER: MORE LUMINANCE, LESS CHROMINANCE

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a.) What are the practical Baseband frequencies for the color video
signal?
ANSWER: 0.5MHz
b.)

of picture information is easier to show in color.

ANSWER: Large areas

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a.) What is the exact horizontal line-scanning frequency for color TV?
ANSWER: 15,734.27 MHz
b.) What is the exact vertical field-scanning frequency for color TV?
ANSWER: 59.94 Hz
c.) What is the exact color subcarrier?
ANSWER: 3.579545 MHz
d.) Which frequency is made exactly an odd multiple of H/2?
ANSWER: C signal.

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a.) The
lines.

alternates the phase of the color signal in successive

ANSWER: PAL system