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Entertainment

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

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bi-level keyer

Entertainment; Video

A keyer where two levels of hole cutting are independently adjustable. The top level, or insert, cuts a hole and fills with the key video. In a luminance key, the second level ...

coating thickness

Entertainment; Video

The thickness of the magnetic coating applied to the base film of a mag tape. Modern tape coatings range in thickness from 170 to 650 microinches. Coating thickness is normally ...

binary

Entertainment; Video

A base-2 numbering system using the digits 0 and 1 (as opposed to 10 digits, 0-9 in the decimal system). In computer systems, the binary digits are represented by two different ...

coaxial cable

Entertainment; Video

a) A transmission line with a concentric pair of signal carrying conductors. There is an inner conductor and an outer conductor metallic sheath. The sheath aids in preventing ...

binary coded decimal (BCD)

Entertainment; Video

A 4-bit representation of the 10 decimal digits “0” through “9.” Six of the sixteen possible codes are unused. Two BDC digits are usually packed into one byte.

cobalt doped oxide

Entertainment; Video

A type of coating used on magnetic recording tape. This is normally a gamma ferric oxide particle which has been doped with cobalt to achieve a higher coercivity. Modern forms of ...