A television system having an ultrablack video signal blanking level for an on-screen character display.

摘要

An arrangement for displaying characters and/or graphics on the screen of a television system including a brightness control section (23) for controlling the black level of video images includes a character blanking section (79) for blanking behind the video image so as to make the characters and/or graphics more visible. The character blanking section is coupled to the brightness control section for generating an "ultra-black" character blanking level which tracks, but is slightly greater (in the black direction) than the black level for the video image. <IMAGE>