WorksheetsGetting Technical
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A 1080p television screen ____.
is High Definition
has twice the picture quality of 1080i
has a 16:9 format
all of the above
A ____ is used to measure the way colors are structured in each camera’s signal.
Confidence monitor
waveform monitor
program monitor
vectorscope
The correct order of the color bars from left to right is ____.
white, cyan, green, yellow, red, magenta, blue, black
white, cyan, yellow, green, magenta, red, blue, black
white, yellow, cyan, green magenta, red, blue, black
white, yellow, cyan, green, red, magenta, blue, black
The pixel dimensions of the lowest resolution HD screen are ____.
525 x 480
720 x 480
1080 x 720
1920 x 1080
OLED televisions use ____ to create the television picture.
a film made from organic compounds
liquid crystals
mirrors
fluorescent lights
The concept of first firing odd lines and then even lines in a cathode ray tube is called __________.
letterbox
interlace
gunlock
progressive scan
Another name for the picture tube in an analog television is ____.
CRT
LCD
vectorscope
waveform monitor
____ televisions use phosphor and rare gases to light the pixels that create an image
LCD
DLP
Plasma
OLED
During video compression, the ____ looks at the information in a frame and decides what to keep and what to discard.
genlock
codec
pixelator
sync generator
The sharpness of an image is referred to as its ____.
density
frame rate
aspect ratio
resolution
High-definition technology can use the motion picture frame rate as well as the television frame rate.
True
False
The purpose of color bars is to verify that all the cameras on a shoot are “seeing” the same shade of a color when pointed at the same object.
True
False
In progressive scan technology, every other line is fired in one pass, and then on the second pass the lines that were not fired on the first pass are fired.
True
False
In interlace scanning, every line is fired in the correct order from the top to the bottom of the television screen.
True
False
The back of a CRT is coated with fluorescent particles.
True
False
When an electron is fired from the cathode of a CRT, it will create a glowing dot when it strikes the back of the screen.
True
False
Each television image is made up of a vast quantity of briefly glowing colored dots.
True
False
Screens with 525 horizontal scan lines are digital televisions.
True
False
If the sync generator is deactivated, the picture will roll or otherwise glitch when cutting from camera to camera.
True
False
The standard format for broadcast television as of June 12, 2009 is 4:3.
True
False
