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Compact disc interactive

Entertainment; Video

CD-I means Compact Disc Interactive. It is meant to provide a standard platform for mass consumer interactive multimedia applications. So it is more akin to CD-DA, in that it is a full specification ...

Burn

Entertainment; Video

An image or pattern appearing so regularly on the screen of a picture tube that it ages the phosphors and remains as a ghost image even when other images are supposed to be shown. On computer ...

Compression artefacts

Entertainment; Video

Compacting of a digital signal, particularly when a high compression ratio is used, may result in small errors in the decompressed signal. These errors are known as “artifacts,” or unwanted ...

Brightness signal

Entertainment; Video

Same as the luminance signal (Y). This signal carries information about the amount of light at each point in the image.

Component digital post production

Entertainment; Video

A method of post production that records and processes video completely in the component digital domain. Analog sources are converted only once to the component digital format and then remain in that ...

Burn in time code

Entertainment; Video

A time code that is displayed on the monitor along with the video it pertains to. Burn In Time Code can either be Vertical Interval Time Code (VITC) or Longitudinal Time Code (LTC).

Broadcast quality

Entertainment; Video

A nebulous term used to describe the output of a manufacturer’s product no matter how bad it looks.

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