Entertainment

Entertainment

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

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sensitometer

Entertainment; Video

An instrument with which a photographic emulsion is given a graduated series of exposures to light of controlled spectral quality, intensity, and duration. Depending upon whether ...

shotgun microphone

Entertainment; Video

Long, highly directional microphone designed to pick up sounds directly in front of the microphone, rejecting sound from other directions. Named for its appearance.

signal-to-noise ratio

Entertainment; Video

The ratio in decibels (dB), of an audio or video signal, between the signal's maximum peak-to-peak signal voltage and the measured voltage of what remains when the signal is ...

society of motion picture and television engineers (SMPTE)

Entertainment; Video

There is an SMPTE time code standard (hr:min:sec:frame) used to identify video frames.

8 mm

Entertainment; Video

A compact videocassette record/playback tape format which uses eight millimeter wide magnetic tape. A worldwide standard established in 1983 allowing high quality video and audio ...

sub band coding

Entertainment; Video

Sub-band coding for images has roots in work done in the 1950s by Bedford and on Mixed Highs image compression done by Kretzmer in 1954. Schreiber and Buckley explored general two ...

adaptive compression

Entertainment; Video

Data compression software that continually analyzes and compensates its algorithm, depending on the type and content of the data and the storage medium.