Entertainment

Entertainment

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

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delay correction

Entertainment; Video

When an electronic signal travels through electronic circuitry or even through long coaxial cable runs, delay problems may occur. This is manifested as a displaced image and ...

delta frame

Entertainment; Video

A frame containing only the data that has changed since the last frame. Delta frames are an efficient means of compressing image data. Compare Key Frame.

distortion

Entertainment; Video

In video, distortion usually refers to changes in the luminance or chrominance portions of a signal. It may contort the picture and produce improper contrast, faulty luminance ...

drop frame

Entertainment; Video

System of modifying the frame counting sequence (dropping two frames every minute except on every tenth minute) to allow time code to match a real-time clock.

downstream keying (DSK)

Entertainment; Video

An effect available in some special effects generators and video mixers in which one video signal is keyed on top of another video signal. The lightest portions of the DSK signal ...

digital video interactive (DVI)

Entertainment; Video

A multimedia system marketed by Intel. DVI is not just an image-compression scheme, but includes everything that is necessary to implement a multimedia playback station including ...

eberhard effect

Entertainment; Video

Another manifestation of adjacency effects. A series of photographic line images of various widths, all exposed with equal intensities. As the lines become narrower, the ...