Entertainment

Entertainment

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

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absorption

Entertainment; Video

In acoustics, the opposite of reflection. Sound waves are “absorbed” or soaked up by soft materials they encounter. Studio designers put this fact to work to control the problem ...

a-mode edit

Entertainment; Video

An editing method where the footage is assembled in the final scene order. Scene 1, scene 2, etc.

adapter

Entertainment; Video

A device used to achieve compatibility between two items of audio/video equipment.

adaption field

Entertainment; Video

Ancillary program data, especially program clock reference (PCR), which are uncoded and are transmitted at least every 100 ms after the TS header of a data stream (packet ...

adaptive

Entertainment; Video

Changing according to conditions.

adaptive bit allocation

Entertainment; Video

The allocation of more bits to image areas of high activity which does not lend itself to all types of video compression techniques, especially when interframe sampling is used.

adaptive differential pulse code modulation

Entertainment; Video

a) A compression technique that encodes the predictive residual instead of the original waveform signal so that the compression efficiency is improved by a predictive gain. Rather ...