With hundreds of high quality technical illustrations, this book presents basic concepts of digitization, sampling, quantization, gamma and filtering. The book highlights principles of colour science as applied to image capture and display, as well as scanning and coding of SDTV and HDTV. It also presents video colour coding: luma, chroma (4:2:2 component video, 4 fSC composite video), Analog NTSC and PAL, studio systems and interfaces, compression technology, including M-JPEG and MPEG-2, and broadcast standards and consumer video equipment.