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0:2:2
1.125 MHz
10-bit lin
10-bit log
1000/1001
12G
13.5 MHz
14:9
16:9
2 Wire
2.25 MHz
2.4 G (Wireless)
2020
22.2
24P
24PsF (segmented frame)
25P
2:2 F1/F2
2:2 F2/F1
2K
2W
3:2 Pull-down (a.k.a. 2:3 Pull-down)
3D (graphics)
3D (stereo)
3D Flash Memory
3G SDI
4 wire
4:1:1
4:2:0
4:2:2
4:2:2:4
4:3
4:4:4
4:4:4:4
4fsc
4G (Mobile Network)
4K
4W
5.1 Audio
50P and 60P
5G (Mobile Network)
5G (Wireless)
601
7.1
709
8 VSB/16 VSB
8P8C
AAC
AAF
AC-3
Accommodation (Stereoscopic)
ACES
Active line
Active picture
Active Video
Adaptive bit-rate streaming or ABR
ADC or A/D
ADSL
AES (Audio Engineering Society)
AES-10
AES-11
AES-3
AES-67
AES-70
AES/EBU
AFD (Active Format Description)
AIMS
Aliasing
Alpha channel
AMWA
Anaglyph (Stereoscopic)
Anamorphic
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Answer print
Anti-aliasing
API
Arbitrated Loop (AL)
ARC
Archive
Areal density
ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses)
ARPU
Artifact
AS
ASCII
ASIC
Aspect Ratio
ASPEN
Asynchronous (data transfer)
ATM
ATSC
Audio hybrid
Auditory masking
Autonomous System
Autostereoscopic
AVB
AVC
AVC-Intra
AVCHD
AVI (.avi)
AVS and AVS+
Axis (x,y,z)
B. frames
Background loading
Bandwidth
Baseband
Bayer filter/mask array
Best Light (pass)
Betacam
Betacam SX (1996)
Beyer Filter
Beyer Pattern
BGAN Broadband Global Area Network
BGP
Big-Endian
Binary
Bit (b)
Bit rate reduction (BRR)
BITC
Black Burst (Black and Burst)
Blanking Interval
Blocks and Blocking
Blu-ray Disc (BD)
Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA)
Bluetooth
BNC
Bonjour
Breaking the frame (Stereoscopic)
Broadband
Browse
Buffering
Bug
Bus
BWF
BXF
Byte (B), kilobyte (kB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB), terabyte (TB) and petabyte (PB)
C. mode
Camera negative (film)
Capability
Cardboarding (Stereoscopic)
CBR
CCD
CCIR
CCITT
CDL
CES Consumer Electronics Show
Channel in a box
Checksum
Chroma
Chroma keying
Chrominance
CiaB (Channel in a Box)
CIE
CIF
CIFS
Cineon (file)
Clip
Clone
Cloud
CMOS
CMTS
Co-sited sampling
coax - coaxial
Codec
COFDM
Color Correction
Color cube
Color Decision List (CDL)
color difference (aka chrominance)
Color management
Color science
Color space
Color Temperature
Color timing (a.k.a. Grading)
Color Transformation Language (CTL)
colorimetry
Colour
Colour Temperature
Colourimetry
Common Image Format (CIF)
Component video
Composite Video
Compositing
Compression (audio)
Compression (video)
Compression ratio
Concatenation
Conform
Connected TV
Consolidation
Constant bit rate (CBR) compression
Content
Contouring
Convergence (Stereoscopic)
Corner pinning
CoS
COTS
CPCM
CRC
CRI Color Rendering Index
Cross conversion
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSMA/CA
CSMA/CD
CSO
Cut (edit)
D-ILA
D-VITC (Digital Vertical Interval Timecode)
D1
D10
D11
D12
D2
D20
D3
D4
D5
D6
D65
D7
D9
Daily Jam
DAM
Dante
DARS
DAS
DASH
Data carousel
Data recorders
Data scanner
Datacasting
dB
DC-SDI
DC28
DCDM
DCI
DCP
DCT (compression)
Debayer
Decibel (dB)
Defragmentation
Deliverables
Densitometer (Film)
Density
Depth grading (Stereoscopic)
Depth of Field
DFS
DHCP
Diagnostics
DiffServ
Digital Asset Management (DAM)
Digital Betacam
Digital Cinema
Digital cinematography
Digital disk recorder (DDR)
Digital Europe Ultra HD Logo
Digital intermediate (DI)
Digital keying and chroma keying
Digital lab
Digital Leader and Digital Projection Verifier
Digital mixing
Digital negative
Digital Production Partnership (DPP)
Digitizer
Digitizing time
Dirac
Dirac Pro
Discontinuous 2:3
Discoverable
Discrete 5.1 Audio
Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)
Disk drives
Display resolutions
DisplayPort
Dither
DivX
DLNA
DLP
DMB
DMD
DMX 512
DNS
DNS-SD
DNxHD
DOCSIS
Dolby
Dolby Vision
Dominance
Down conversion
Down-res
DPP
DPX
DRAM
Drop-frame timecode
DSL
DSLAM
DSM
DSP Digital Signal Processing
DSS
DTT
Dual link
Duplex
DV
DVB
DVCAM
DVCPRO
DVD
DVE
DVTR
DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
Dynamic range
Dynamic Rounding
EBU
ECC
EDL
Effects (digital)
Electronic program guides (EPG)
Embedded audio
Ember plus
Ember+
Encryption
ENG
Entry point
EOTF
Error detection, concealment and correction
Essence
Ethernet
ETSI
ETSI compression
EXOR
Exposure
FAN
FEC
Fettle
Fiber Optic
Fibre Channel (FC)
Fibre Optic
Field
Field Dominance
File transfer
File-based (media)
Film formats
Film recorder (digits to film)
Film scanner (film to digits)
FIMS
FireWire
Flash
Flash Memory
Floating edges or Floating window (Stereoscopic)
Flop
Flow
Flyback
Focal Length
Format (television)
Format conversion
Fragmentation
Frame
Frame rate
Frame-rate conversion
Framestore
Frequency
FTP
FTTX
Full HD
Full motion video
FXP
G.fast
Gamma
Gamut
Gateway
Generation loss
Ghosting (Stereoscopic)
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigantism (Stereoscopic)
Global (control)
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
Googol
GOP Group Of Pictures
GPI
GPU
Grading (a.k.a. color timing)
Grain
Grain management
Grand Master Clock
Granularity
Green Screen
GSN
GUI
H.264
H.265
Hard disk drives
HbbTV
HD
HD D5
HD DVD
HD ready
HD RGB
HD-SDI
HDCAM
HDCP
HDMI
HDR (HDRI)
HDR 10
HDR10
HDR10 plus
HDR10+ (aka HDR10 plus)
HDTV
HDV
HE-AAC
HEVC
Hexadecimal
HFR
High Efficiency Video Coding
High Speed Camera Systems
HIPPI
History (editing)
HLG
HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA
HSM
HTTP
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
HTTP Smooth Streaming (HSS)
Hub (network)
Huffman coding
Hyperstereo (Stereoscopic)
Hypostereo (Stereoscopic)
I-frame only (a.k.a. I-only)
I-Link
I-only
IABM
IABM Educational Foundation
IDTV
IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)
IEEE 1394a/b (a.k.a. FireWire, I-Link)
IEEE 1588
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.1p
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.3
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE-BTS
IET Institution of Engineering and Technology
IETF
IGMP
IGMP Snoop
Illegal colors
IMF
IMX
In-server editing
InfiniBand
ING
Inter-frame (compression)
Interactive Television (iTV)
Interaxial distance (Stereoscopic)
Intercom
Interlace (scan)
Interlace Factor
Internegative
Interocular distance (Stereoscopic)
Interoperability
Interpolation (spatial)
Interpolation (temporal)
Interpositive
Intra-frame (compression)
Invalid Colors
IP
IP Datacast Forum (IPDC)
IP over DVB
IPTV
IR Infra Red
IRD
IS-IS
ISA
ISDB
ISDCF
ISMA
ISO
Isochronous
ITU
ITU IPTV standard Rec J.700
ITU-R BT.1886
ITU-R BT.2020
ITU-R BT.2100
ITU-R BT.601
ITU-R BT.656
ITU-R BT.709
ITU-R BT.799
iTV
Java
JBOD
JPEG (.JPG)
JPEG 2000 (.JP2)
JT-NM
Keycode
Keyframe
Keying
Keystoning (Stereoscopic)
KLV
Latency (of data)
Latitude
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3
Layer 4
Layer 5
Layer 6
Layer 7
Layer(ing)
LCOS
Letterbox
Level
Linear (editing)
Linear (keying)
Link Aggregation
Lip Sync
Livewire
LSB
LTC
LTO-5, LTO-6
Luma
Lumen
Luminaire
Luminance
LUT
Macroblock
MADI
Main (Level/Profile) (ML) (MP)
MAM
Master
Master Clock
Matrix
mDNS
Media Network Alliance
MediaFLO
Metadata
Metamerism
Mezzanine Compression
MHEG-5
MHP
Middleware
Miniaturization (Stereoscopic)
Mobile TV
Modem
Modulation
Moiré
Moore’s Law
MOS
Motion Adaptive Processing
Motion Compensated Processing
Motion JPG
Motion vectors
MP3
MP@ML, MP@HL
MPEG
MPEG DASH
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-21
MPEG-4
MPEG-7
MPEG-H
MPEG-HEVC H.265
MPEG-IMX
MPLS
MSB
MTBF
MTF
Multicast
Multimedia
Multiplex (Mux)
MXF
NAS
Network Byte Order
Network layer
NFS
Nibble
Nit
NLE
NMI
NMOS
NMOS IS-04
NMOS IS-05
NMOS IS-06
Noise (random)
Non drop-frame timecode
Non-additive mix
Nonlinear (editing)
NRCS
NTFS
NTP
NTSC
NTSC (television standard)
NVOD
Nyquist (frequency)
Octet
OETF
Ofcom
OFDM
OFDMA
Offline (editing)
OIPF
OLED
OMFI
One light (pass)
Online (editing)
Open Systems Interconnect (OSI)
OpenEXR
OpenFlow
Operating system (OS)
Optical disks
Orthostereoscopic (Stereoscopic)
OSPF
OTT
OXC Optical Cross Connect
P-frames
P2
Pack
Packet Switched
PAL
PAL-M
PAM
PAN
Parallax (Stereoscopic)
Parallel processing
PCI Express
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
Perceptual Quantizer
Perf film
Pgroup
Photo-real
PIM
Pixel (or Pel)
Pixel Group
Playout
PLD
Plug-in
POTS
POTS - Plane Old-fashioned Telephone Service
POV (Point of View)
PQ
Precision Time Protocol.
Primary Color
Print film
Printer lights
Professional Disc (PFD)
Profile
Progressive (scan)
Projectors (digital)
ProRes
Pseudoscopic (Stereoscopic)
pSF
PTP
PTP (Precision Time Protocol) Epoch
PTP - Precision Time Protocol
PTP Domain
Publishing
Pulfrich effect (Stereoscopic)
Purpose-built hardware
Q-LAN
QoS
Quantization
Quantizing
Quantum dot (QD)
QuickTime
RAID
RAID levels
RAM
RAVENNA
Raw data (a.k.a. source data)
Rec. 2020
Resolution
Resolution co-existence
Resolution independent
Resolving power
Restoration
Return control (path)
Reverse Talkback RTB
RF Radio Frequency
RFC 4175
RGB
RJ45
ROADM Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer
Rotoscoping
Router
RS 232
RS 422
RSN
RTCP
RTP
RTSP
Run-length encoding
Safe area
Sampling standard
SAN
SAP (Session Announcement Protocol)
SATA
Schema
Scrub (audio)
SCSI
SD, SDHC
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDI
SDK
SDN Software Defined Networking
SDP (Session Description Protocol)
SDSL
SDTI
SDTV
Second Screen
Secondary color correction
Secure Digital (SD) Card
SED
Seek time (a.k.a. Positioning time)
SEI Supplemental Enhancement Information
Sender
Sequence Detection
Serial Digital Interface (SDI)
Server (file)
Server (video)
Server editing
Shannon Limit
Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N or SNR)
Simulcasting
Simultaneous true random access
Single-frequency Network (SFN)
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
SL-HDR1
Slave Clock
Smart TV
SMPTE
SMPTE "Registered Disclosure Document" RDD 37
SMPTE Epoch
SMPTE ST 2022
SMPTE ST 2022-1
SMPTE ST 2022-2
SMPTE ST 2022-6
SMPTE ST 2022-7
SMPTE ST 2036
SMPTE ST 2038
SMPTE ST 2059
SMPTE ST 2064
SMPTE ST 2082
SMPTE ST 2110
SMPTE ST 2110-10
SMPTE ST 2110-20
SMPTE ST 2110-30
SMPTE ST 2110-40
SMPTE ST 302
SMPTE ST 309
SNMP
Square pixels
SSD
SSM
Standard platform
Standards (television)
Standards conversion
Statistical multiplexing (a.k.a. Stat Mux)
StEM
Stencil®
Stereoscopic Window (Stereoscopic)
Stereoscopy
Stop
Storage capacity (for video and movies)
Streaming (video and/or audio)
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Sub-pixel
Super Hi-Vision (SHV)
Switch (network)
SXRD
Synchronization
Synchronous (data transfer)
T-DMB
Table 3 (ATSC)
Talkback
Targa (.TGA)
TBC
TCLI Television Lighting Consistency Index
TCP
TCP/IP
Telecine
Threading
TIA (International Atomic Time)
TIA/EIA-568
TICO
Tico Alliance
TIFF (.TIF)
Timeline
TLA
TLCI Television Lighting Consistency Index
Tracking (image)
Transport Stream
Tri-level sync (TLS)
Triage
True HD
True random access
TrueHD
TrueType (fonts)
Truncation
Tutorial 1 – Into digits
Tutorial 2 – Film basics
TV Primary
two wire
UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
UHD Alliance
UHDTV UHD
Ultra HD Forum
Ultra HD Premium Logo
Uncommitted editing
Unicode
Up-res
UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
USB
UTC (Universal Coordinated Time)
UV Ultra Violet
Vaporware
Variable bit rate (VBR) compression
VariCam
VBI Vertical Blanking Interval
VC-1
VC-2
VC-3
Vector fonts
Versioning
VFR
Video over IP
Video projection
Viewing Distance
Virtual telecine
Visually lossless
VITC
VLAN
VSB
VSF (Video Services Forum)
VSF TR-03
VSF TR-04
WAV (.WAV)
Wavelet
WCG Wide Color Gamut
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
White balance
White Point
Widescreen
WiFi
WiMAX
Windows Media Player
WirelessHD (WiHD)
Word clock
WORM
WYSIWYG
XAVC
XDCAM
XLR
XYZ
Y, Cr, Cb
Y, R-Y, B-Y
YUV
Zebra
ZeroConf (Zero-configuration networking)
Zulu Time