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cliff effect

Entertainment; Video

An RF characteristic that causes DTV reception to change dramatically with a small change in power. At the fringes of reception, current analog TV pictures degrade by becoming “snowy.” With DTV, ...

baud rate

Entertainment; Video

a) The speed (calculated as bits per second) at which the computer sends information to a serial device, such as a modem or terminal. b) Measure of data flow: the number of signal elements per ...

bdr

Entertainment; Video

See Border.

clip (insert adjust)

Entertainment; Video

To produce a key signal from a video signal, a clip insert control on the front panel is used to set a threshold level to which the video signal is compared. In luminance keying, any video ...

bearding

Entertainment; Video

An overloading condition in which highly saturated or white areas of a television picture appear to flow irregularly into darker areas.

clip level

Entertainment; Video

The level that determines at what luminance a key will cut its hole. On AVC switchers, these are the insert and border adjust controls. On 4100 series, the corresponding controls are foreground and ...

beats

Entertainment; Video

Variation in the amplitude of a mixture of two signals of close frequency as a result of constructive and destructive interference.

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