This best selling text widely known for its monochrome edition, now covers color television and video systems comprehensively in the second edition. It elucidates all modern TV pick-up tubes, CCD imagers, and various kinds of VTRs, VCRs and video disk systems along with their design features. It includes contemporary developments like cable and satellite television, MAC packets with HDTV and videotex information services as also their recent advances such as digital TV technology and typical IC receivers. Worked-out examples, unsolved problems, review and multiple-choice questions are interpersed throughout the text.