Entertainment

Entertainment

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

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generation loss

Entertainment; Video

When an analog master videotape is duplicated, the second-generation copy is usually inferior in some way to the master. This degradation appears as loss of detail, improper ...

hiss

Entertainment; Video

The most common audible noise component in audio recording, stemming from a combination of circuit and tape noise. Several noise reduction systems are available, such as Dolby, ...

horizontal resolution

Entertainment; Video

Rating of the fine detail (definition) of a TV picture, measured in scan lines. The more lines, the higher the resolution and the better the picture. A standard VHS format VCR ...

hue saturation brightness (HSB)

Entertainment; Video

With the HSB model, all colors can be defined by expressing their levels of hue (the pigment), saturation (the amount of pigment) and brightness (the amount of white included), in ...

hue

Entertainment; Video

Often used synonymously with the term tint. It is the dominant wavelength which distinguishes a color such as red, yellow, etc. Most commonly, video hue is influenced by a ...

huffman coding

Entertainment; Video

For a given character distribution, by assigning short codes to frequently occurring characters and longer codes to infrequently occurring characters, Huffman's minimum redundancy ...

hybrid coder

Entertainment; Video

In the archetypal hybrid coder, an estimate of the next frame to be processed is formed from the current frame and the difference is then encoded by some purely intraframe ...