Abstract: In a tuning system for a television receiver including tuning voltage circuitry for generating and thereafter storing binary signals representing tuning voltages corresponding to the various channels a viewer may select for controlling a voltage variable tuning element, skip channel circuitry for generating and thereafter storing binary signals representing whether or not each of the channels is preferred, channel selection circuitry for retrieving the stored binary signals when a viewer depresses either an up or down push button, a mode push button is provided in conjunction with sequence detection circuitry to generate various control signals to enable the programming of the tuning voltage circuitry and skip channel circuitry in response to the order and manner in which the mode, up and down push buttons are operated.

Abstract: A switched television pincushion correction circuit uses a controllable switch including an SCR gated at the horizontal deflection rate. The gating signal is a horizontal rate pulse which is duration-modulated at the vertical rate. A gating pulse generator includes a source of rectified mutually inverted vertical sawtooth signals. An offsetting circuit generates from the rectified signals two vertical rate signals offset from each other by a fixed amount. The offset signals are summed and the sum signal is used to modulate a horizontal-rate ramp-on-pedestal signal in order to generate the duration modulated SCR gating signal.