Unit 1 Television.ppt

Unit 11 Television Index Pre-reading 11. 1 Text 11. 2 Reading materials 11. 3 Knowledge about translation 11. 4 Exercises 11. 5 课文参考译文 11. 6 阅读材料参考译文 Pre-reading Read the following passage, paying attention to the question. 1) What is CRT? 2) What difference between the color TV and black-white TV? 3) How do you get the signal to TV? 11. 1 Text 11.1.1 about Television 11.1.2 Color TV 11.1.3 Getting the Signal to TV 11.1.1 about Television Television is certainly one of the most influential forces of our time. To understand TV, lets start at the beginning with a quick note about your brain. There are two amazing things about your brain that make television possible. The first principle is this: If you divide a still image into a collection of small colored dots, your brain will reassemble the dots into a meaningful image. On a TV or computer screen, the dots are called pixels. The human brains second amazing feature relating to television is this: If you divide a moving scene into a sequence of still pictures and show the still images in rapid succession, the brain will reassemble the still images into a single, moving scene. 1. the Cathode Ray Tube Some TVs in use today rely on a device known as the cathode ray tube, or CRT, to display their images. Lets start with the CRT, because CRTs are used to be the most common way of displaying images. Fig 11.1 CRT In a cathode ray tube (see in Fig 11.1), the cathode is a heated filament (not unlike the filament in a normal light bulb). The heated filament is in a vacuum created inside a glass tube. The ray is a stream of electrons that naturally pour off a heated cathode into the vacuum. Electrons are negative. The anode is positive, so it attracts the electrons pouring off the cathode. In a TVs cathode ray tube, the stream of electrons is focused by a focusing anode into a tight beam and then accelerated by an accelerating anode. This tight, high-speed beam of electrons flies through the vacuum in the tube