Entertainment

Entertainment

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

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conductive coatings

Entertainment; Video

Coatings that are specially treated to reduce the coating resistance, and thus prevent the accumulation of static electrical charge. Untreated, non-conductive coatings may become ...

bug

Entertainment; Video

An error in a computer program. Eliminating errors is known as debugging.

compressing-expanding

Entertainment; Video

Analog compression is used at one point in the communications path to reduce the amplitude range of the signals, followed by an expander to produce a complementary increase in the ...

byte aligned

Entertainment; Video

A bit in a coded bit stream is byte-aligned if its position is a multiple of 8-bits from the first bit in the stream.

confidence test

Entertainment; Video

A test to make sure a particular device (such as the keyboard, mouse, or a drive) is set up and working properly.

built-in reference tones

Entertainment; Video

Refers to adjustment tones which are available within the recorder for adjusting record level and bias.

compression

Entertainment; Video

a) The process of electronically processing a digital video picture to make it use less storage or to allow more video to be sent down a transmission channel. b) The process of ...