BS 3549-1:1979

National foreword
Chapter I: General
1. Introduction
2. General explanation of terms
Chapter II: General notes on measurements
3. General conditions
4. Environmental conditions
5. Precautions during measurements
6. Power supply
7. Radio-frequency input signals
8. Radio-frequency input arrangements
9. Recommended values for radio-frequency
     input signal levels
10. Tuning methods
11. Tuning sensitivity
12. Automatic frequency control performance
     characteristics (A.F.C)
13. Operating frequency and its stability
14. General mechanical properties of tuning systems
15. Performance characteristics of pre-settable tuning
     systems
Chapter III: Geometrical properties of the picture
16. Picture size
17. Curvature of picture screen
18. Geometrical distortion
19. Overall geometrical distortion alternative method
     of measurement
20. Convergence errors
21. Over- and under-scanning and centring
Chapter IV: Synchronizing quality
22. Line scan phase error characteristic
23. Line scan phase transfer characteristic
24. Line scan synchronizing range
25. Pulling on whites
26. Pulling on vertical synchronizing pulses
27. Ragging
28. Weave and ripple
29. Horizontal scan phasing
30. Quality of interlace
31. Jumping
32. Scan generator frequency variation with time
33. Effects of scanning circuits upon colour signal
     decoding
Chapter V: Sensitivity
34. General considerations
35. Standard image and standard video output voltage
36. Gain-limited sensitivity
37. Noise-limited sensitivity
38. Synchronizing sensitivity
39. Colour sensitivity
40. Coefficient of reflection at the receiver input
41. Automatic gain control static characteristics
42. Automatic gain control dynamic characteristics
43. Chrominance automatic gain control characteristic
44. Composite luminance and chrominance automatic gain
     control dynamic characteristic
45. Colour killing
46. Colour killer response time
47. Maximum usable single input signal level
48. Maximum usable multiple input signal level
Chapter VI: Selectivity and response to undesired signals
49. Single signal selectivity
50. Multiple signal selectivity
51. Intermediate frequency interference ratio
52. Image interference ratio
53. Spurious responses
54. Internally generated undesired signals
55. Cross-modulation
56. Intermodulation
57. Frequency doubling special test for receivers using
     multiplicative intermediate frequency demodulation
Chapter VII: Fidelity
58. General
59. Modulation frequency/response characteristic,
     luminance channel
60. Linear waveform response, luminance channel
61. Modulation-frequency/response characteristic,
     chrominance channel
62. Linear waveform response, chrominance channel
63. Black level and its stability
64. D.C. component distortion, luminance channel
65. D.C. component distortion, colour difference signals
66. D.C. component distortion, primary colour signals
67. Errors of chrominance signal demodulation angle -
     NTSC system
68. Errors of chrominance signal demodulation angle -
     PAL system
69. Effects of phase distortion on incoming signal for
     small picture areas - PAL system
70. Luminance/chrominance delay inequality
71. Direct and delayed signal time matching - SECAM
     system
72. Direct and delayed signal amplitude matching -
     SECAM system
73. G-Y signal matrixing error
74. Primary colour signal matrixing error
75. Spurious line sequential effects
76. Line time non-linearity, luminance signal
77. Line time non-linearity, colour difference signals
78. Line time non-linearity, primary colour signals
Chapter VIII: Compatibility with audio visual recording
equipment
79. Flagging
80. Horizontal weave
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