Abstract: AGC system for a television receiver having a keyed AGC circuit, a peak or average AGC circuit and a switching circuit between a video signal intermediate frequency amplifier circuit and an video signal detection circuit, wherein automatic gain control (AGC) for video signals is effected by the keyed AGC circuit, which is commuted by using the switching circuit after having had the peak or average AGC circuit operated at the switch-on moment of the power supply.

Abstract: In a PAL-SECAM color television receiver comprising a transcoder for converting a SECAM signal into a signal which is processable by a PAL decoder, and a systems change-over switch which can be operated by a SECAM identification circuit for automatically adapting the receiver to the reception of PAL or SECAM signals, a blocking circuit which can be operated by a PAL identification signal is used, which blocking circuit in the event a PAL signal is received blocks the output signal from the SECAM identification circuit so that also in the event that a disturbed PAL signal is received said output signal does not adjust the systems change-over switch to the incorrect position.

Abstract: A television tape recorder in which a television signal, composed of a picture carrier which is frequency modulated with a video signal and an audio carrier each frequency modulated with an LF audio signal, is recorded along successive oblique tracks of a record carrier such that one successive picture field is recorded along each track.

Abstract: A time base correction device for use with a video disc reproduction system corrects the time base of the color video signal according to the phase difference between a reference signal and a color burst signal; and the time base of the audio signal is corrected according to the phase difference between a reference signal and a horizontal synch signal extracted from the video signal.