Entertainment

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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dynamic mike

Entertainment; Video

A mike in which the diaphragm moves a coil suspended in a magnetic field to generate an output voltage proportional to the sound pressure level.

dynamic range

Entertainment; Video

a) A circuit’s signal range. b) An audio term which refers to the range between the softest and loudest levels a source can produce without distortion. c) The difference, in ...

dynamic range, display

Entertainment; Video

The range of luminances actually achieved in a display. The system’s overall transfer function is the most informative specification of dynamic range, inasmuch as nonlinear ...

dynamic range, image capture

Entertainment; Video

The range of luminances actually captured in the image is defined and limited by the transfer function which is usually nonlinear. Capture and recording systems traditionally ...

dynamic range compression

Entertainment; Video

Level adjustment applied to an audio signal in order to limit the difference, or range of the loudest to the softest sounds.

dynamic resolution

Entertainment; Video

The amount of spatial resolution available in moving pictures. In most television schemes, dynamic resolution is considerably less than static resolution. See also Motion ...

dynamic rounding

Entertainment; Video

The intelligent truncation of digital signals. Some image processing requires that two signals are multiplied, for example in digital mixing, producing a 16-bit result from two ...