6 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
bit (binary digit)
Entertainment; Video
a) Contraction of binary digit. A single digit in a binary number. b) A binary representation of 1 or 0. One of the quantized levels of a pixel. c) An instruction in a data transmission, usually part ...
bit budget
Entertainment; Video
The total amount of bits available on the media being used. In DVD, the bit budget of a single sided/single layer DVD5 disk is actually 4.7 GB.
coder-decoder
Entertainment; Video
Used to implement the physical combination of the coding and decoding circuits.
bit depth
Entertainment; Video
The number of levels that a pixel might have, such as 256 with an 8-bit depth or 1024 with a 10-bit depth.
