Re: New movie - 'Defend Arindam!'

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Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> In article
> <ef98e49e-1a55-4d0f...@rg1g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
> Arindam Banerjee <adda1...@bigpond.com> posted:
> >
> > > On May 11, 10:39=A0am, Arindam Banerjee <adda1...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
> > >
> > > > 720p vs 1080i HD Explained
> > >
> > > > YouTube
> > >
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=3Dplayer_embedded&v=3DAvvh0iH2xSg
> > > >
> > > > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> > > > Om Shanti
> > >
> > > Thanks, it was a great presentation and thanks to my having taken a
> > > rather boring course in TV decades ago I managed to get something from
> > > it.
> > > btw Frederick Emmons Terman (the guru of HP) described the whole
> > > business of TV in just one line, in his famous book. =A0If there is
> > > interest, I can dig it up...
> >
> > Sorry, it wasn't one line, but an entire paragraph.
> > Here it is:
> >
> > "Television is accomplished by successively exploring
> > different portions of a scene to be reproduced, using a
> > "camera" tube that at each instant develops a voltage
> > proportional to the light intensity of the portion of the
> > scence under examination. The varying voltage that
> > results from this SCANNING procedure is amplified and
> > then modulated upon a radio-frequency carrier wave that
> > is radiated. The television receiver synthesizes the
> > original scene on the fluorescent screen of a cathode-ray
> > tube by causing the cathode-ray spot to trace over
> > successive portions of the reproduced scene in accordance
> > with the scanning of the original scene, while at the
> > same time varying the brightness of the spot in
> > accordance with the envelope amplitude of the received
> > signal. When the scanning process is carried out with
> > sufficient rapidity, the illusion of continuous motion is
> > achieved."
> >
> > "Electronic and Radio Engineering" by Frederick Emmons
> > Terman, 4th Ed, McGraw-Hill Kogakusha, International
> > Student Edition, p-977.
> >
> > Superb technical writing is so under-rated.
> > Cheers,
> > Arindam Banerjee
>
> What a well-written summary!
>
> Dhanyavaad.
>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti

A one-phrase description of a locomotive (creating such
phrases for fun was a word game in school in U.P.):

aag rath aavat jaavat jantar

Let me translate it for those who don't understand our
bhaashaa:

A "fire contraption" that comes and goes.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti