This project was born as a real serial terminal, using a TV instead of a lcd display or a remote PC terminal. Probably the author lives quite far from any electronics shop, so he decided to use a TV to display pressed keys on a ATMEL ATMEGA8 controlled keyboard programmed by the author himself.

Saving energy and reducing pollution are the goals, the targets that all countries in the world want to achieve.

The Federal Communications Commission sponsored a Nascar race car as part of its effort to inform Americans that on Feb. 18, television signals transmitted over the air will be transmitted solely in digital format. Old TV sets will no longer work.

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol. VLC is a free multimedia player, encoder, and streaming software developed by the VideoLAN Project. It supports many encoding and streaming protocols. It can be used to encode audio and video materials into various file formats or stream them into IP networks.

There are several digital TV standards developed such as: DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee), ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial)

When I developed a TV project, something strange really bothered me for weeks. The CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) TV project was based upon a Philips 8051 TV microcontroller with on-chip OSD (On Screen Display) and Tuning features. The software was running on my emulator without any problems. So our customer decided to launch pilot production. The QA team found something strange in the internal audit procedure and notified me urgently. Among 12 TV sets, about 5 TV sets randomly shown the retrace scanning lines after AC switching on. The occurrence was unpredictable.