Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Technical presentation of current television systems. The author offers suggestions for the future, describes the current colour television standards, discusses the impact of satellite transmission and its implications for HDTV and considers digital transmission systems.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Principles of television systems, and a little history
• the search for a compatible colour system
• NTSC - the world's first practical colour television system
• the development of PAL and SECAM
• MAC - the first of a new generation of television systems
• recommendation 601 - one world standard - digital video and the world digital studio standard
• the long road toward a better system - higher definition on the horizon
• Japan's Hi-Vision - the world's first HDTV system
• compatible