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contour enhancement

Entertainment; Video

A general term usually intended to include both aperture correction and edge enhancement.

buss

Entertainment; Video

In video switching equipment, a wire carrying line-level signals (anything greater than mike level).

conditional access table (CAT)

Entertainment; Video

Provides information on the conditional access systems used. Packets having PID codes of 1 and that contain information about the scrambling system. See ECM and EMM.

capture

Entertainment; Video

The process of digitizing the analog video signal. See Digitize.

contouring

Entertainment; Video

Video picture defect due to quantizing at too coarse a level. The visual effect of this defect is that pictures take on a layered look somewhat like a geographical contoured map.

card guides

Entertainment; Video

Narrow metal tracks at the top and bottom of the chassis into which you slide printed circuit boards.

cardioid

Entertainment; Video

The quasi-heart-shaped sensitivity pattern of most unidirectional microphones. Hypercardioid and supercardioid microphones have basically similar patterns, but with longer, narrower areas of ...