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A television system that limits the recording or transmission of useful picture information to about three-quarters of the available vertical picture height of the distribution format (e.g. 525-line) ...

Linear

Entertainment; Video

The layout of audio and video scenes in a continuous length of tape. Working with linear video is slower than with non-linear footage, because the operator must fast forward or rewind to search for ...

Looping

Entertainment; Video

A term used to describe the chaining of a video signal through several video devices (distribution amplifiers, VCRs, monitors, etc.). A VCR may be hooked up to a distribution amplifier which is ...

Lossy compression

Entertainment; Video

A scheme that, after decompression, does not produce exactly the same data that was given to the compressor. Due to the nature of image data, the losses are often imperceptible to the human eye. ...

Luma

Entertainment; Video

Video originates with linear-light (tristimulus) RGB primary components, conventionally contained in the range 0 (black) to +1 (white). From the RGB triple, three gamma-corrected primary signals are ...

Hue saturation brightness (HSB)

Entertainment; Video

With the HSB model, all colours can be defined by expressing their levels of hue (the pigment), saturation (the amount of pigment) and brightness (the amount of white included), in percentages.

Hue

Entertainment; Video

Often used synonymously with the term tint. It is the dominant wavelength which distinguishes a colour such as red, yellow, etc. Most commonly, video hue is influenced by a camera's white balance ...