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active lines

Entertainment; Video

The total number of scanning lines minus those scanning lines devoted to the vertical blanking interval.

anamorphic squeeze

Entertainment; Video

A change in picture geometry to compress one direction (usually horizontal) more than the other. Anamorphic squeeze lenses made CinemaScope possible. Occasionally, when widescreen movies are ...

active picture

Entertainment; Video

That portion of the ITU-R BT.601 digital picture signal between the SAV and EAV data words.

anamorphic video

Entertainment; Video

Found on a large number of DVDs, anamorphic video squeezes a 1.78:1 picture shape into a 1.33:1 image area. If you view an anamorphic video image on a 1.33 set, the characters will look tall and ...

The part of a TV picture that contains actual picture as opposed to sync or other data. Vertically, the active picture area is 487 lines for NTSC and 576 lines for PAL. The inactive area is called ...

anchor frame

Entertainment; Video

A video frame that is used for prediction. I-frames and P-frames are generally used as anchor frames, but B-frames are never anchor frames.

active video

Entertainment; Video

The part of the video waveform that is not specified to be blanking, burst, or sync information. Most of the active video, if not all of it, is visible on the display screen.