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The Digital Fact BookConverged medi
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Quantel and digital technologyIn 19
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2003 QColor - powerful in-context c
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Abbreviationsbit b kilobit kbbits p
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Digital terms0:2:2See: Dual Link100
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13.5 MHzThis is the sampling freque
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3:2 Pull-down (a.k.a. 2:3 Pull-down
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4:2:0A sampling system used to digi
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A4KSee Film formats5.1 AudioSee Dis
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AActive pictureThe area of a TV fra
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AAliasingUndesirable ‘beating’
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AArchiveLong-term storage of inform
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AAspect ratio1. - of pictures. The
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AAVCHDAdvanced Video Codec High Def
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BBandwidthThe amount of information
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BBit (b)Binary digIT = bitOne mathe
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BBroadbandGeneral term referring to
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CCamera negative (film)Camera negat
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CChrominanceThe colorpart of a tele
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CCOFDMCoded Orthogonal Frequency Di
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CColor Transform Language (CTL)Colo
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CCommon Image Format (CIF)The ITU h
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CCompression ratioThe ratio of the
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CConsolidationClearing continuous s
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CCo-sited samplingThis is a samplin
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DD2A VTR standard for digital compo
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DatacastingBroadcasting data.See: I
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DefragmentationSee FragmentationDDe
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DensityThe density (D) of a film is
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Digital BetacamSee: BetacamDDigital
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DDigital keying and chroma keyingDi
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DD-ILADigital Direct Drive Image Li
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DDitherIn digital television, analo
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DDMD(Texas Instruments Inc.) Digita
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DDown-resDecreasing the size of vid
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DDual linkThe bandwidth of SDI and
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DDVBDigitalVideo Broadcasting,the g
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DTo maximize quality and playing ti
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DDynamic Rounding ®Dynamic Roundin
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EElectronic program guides (EPG)DTV
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EEthernetEthernet is a form of Loca
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Fibre Channel (FC)An integrated set
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Format Width mm Height mmFull Frame
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Flash - double and tripleDouble fla
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FFrame-rate conversionThe process o
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Generation lossThe signal degradati
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- Page 97 and 98: H.264See: MPEG-4HANAHigh-Definition
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- Page 101 and 102: HDR, HDRIHigh Dynamic Range Imaging
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- Page 107 and 108: I-frame only (a.k.a. I-only)A video
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- Page 111 and 112: Interpolation (spatial)Defining the
- Page 113 and 114: IP over DVBThe delivery of IP data
- Page 115 and 116: ITU-R BT.601This standard defines t
- Page 117 and 118: JPEG 2000 (.JP2)This is an image co
- Page 119 and 120: Latency (of data)The delay between
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- Page 125 and 126: MoiréRefers to a distortion that a
- Page 127 and 128: MPEG-2ISO/IEC 13818. A family of in
- Page 129 and 130: MPEG-4ISO/IEC 14496. MPEG-4 covers
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- Page 133 and 134: MXFThe Material eXchange Format, SM
- Page 135 and 136: Non drop-frame timecodeTimecode tha
- Page 137 and 138: Offline (editing)A decision-making
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- Page 141 and 142: PerfShort for perforations. It is a
- Page 143 and 144: Progressive (scan)Method of scannin
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- Page 153 and 154: SDKSoftware Developers Kit. Typical
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- Page 159 and 160: StEMStandard Evaluation Material wa
- Page 161 and 162: StopA ratio of amount of light wher
- Page 163 and 164: 2K and 4K2K is a format used in dig
- Page 165 and 166: Sub-pixelA spatial resolution small
- Page 167 and 168: Table 3 (ATSC)Table 3 of the ATSC D
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- Page 183 and 184: Y, Cr, CbThe digital luminance and
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Finally, the most important require
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Standards onlineEBU offers many doc
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DirectoryAESThe Audio Engineering S
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Quantel contacts and addressesUKQua
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