Telefunken
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Telefunken was a German radio and television producer, founded in Berlin in 1903 as a joint venture between Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft. Prior to World War I, the co
Telefunken REN 904. A vacuum tube from 1930, used in early German radios.
Telefunken Partner 200, radio receiver model produced 1976-1978 in West Germany.
A Telefunken RC 881 cassette, CD player, and radio
Telefunken alarm clock from c. 1995 made by Thomson SA, designed by Philippe Starck
PAL
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PAL is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 line
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…employees. In 1967, Telefunken was merged with AEG, which was then renamed AEG-Telefunken. In the beginning of the 1960s, Walter Bruch developed the PAL-colour television system for the company, in use by most countries of the western Hemisphere (except the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the western…
Un-decoded PAL image, showing chroma information as fine patterns chroma dots (click to zoom) overlapping the luma signal
Decoded PAL image, with chroma fully recovered. Some minor artifacts (see dot crawl) are present across transition areas (click to zoom).
A waterfall display showing a 20ms long interlaced PAL frame with high FFT resolution
Analyzing a PAL signal and decoding the 20ms frame and 64 μs lines