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Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works

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Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works

Technology Connections explains how analog television produced moving images without computers, covering scanning, CRTs and standards like NTSC and PAL. It is part of a series on analog TV.

HN points to it as a clear explainer of how analog TV and CRTs actually work, and as the entry point to the author's wider TV series.

4 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2026

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