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Right, so anyone who’s looked at past papers will know how impossibly hard it is. Anyone who hasn’t but is taking the exam is in for a nasty surprise. Anyway, apart from the fact there has been a compression question for the last four years and not a single one on displays or cameras, there is very little to help us guess what is likely to be on the paper.

Anyway, if you’re looking at having at least an idea of how analogue video works so you can blag a few marks in the event you need it, check out this website:

http://www.danalee.ca/ttt/analog_video.htm

I haven’t actually read through it yet but it looks pretty good.

This next one goes on a bit but the intro gives useful info on PAL:

http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/modes/