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0:2:2
.MOV
1.125 MHz
2:2 F1/F2
2 Wire
2W
2K
2:2 F2/F1
2.25 MHz
2.4 G (Wireless)
3Vs (volume, variety and velocity)
3-tier application architecture
3D XPoint
3D Flash Memory
3:2 Pull-down (a.k.a. 2:3 Pull-down)
3D (graphics)
3D (stereo)
3G SDI
4:3
4W
4 wire
4K
4fsc
4:4:4:4
4:4:4
4:2:2:4
4G (Mobile Network)
4:2:2
4:2:0
4:1:1
5G (Mobile Network)
5G (Wireless)
5.1 Audio
7.1
8 VSB/16 VSB
8P8C
10-bit log
10-bit lin
12 factor app (twelve-factor app)
12G
13.5 MHz
14:9
16:9
22.2
24PsF (segmented frame)
24P
25P
50P and 60P
1000/1001
AAC
AAF
AC-3
Accommodation (Stereoscopic)
account-based marketing (ABM)
ACES
actionable intelligence
Active Directory functional levels
Active line
Active picture
Active Video
Adaptive bit-rate streaming or ABR
ADC or A/D
Address Resolution Protocol
ADSL
AES (Audio Engineering Society)
AES-3
AES-10
AES-11
AES-67
AES-70
AES/EBU
AFD (Active Format Description)
Affective Computing (Emotion AI)
AI code of ethics
AIMS
AIOps
Aliasing
Alpha channel
alpha testing
Alternative Data
Amazon Aurora
AMWA
Anaglyph (Stereoscopic)
Anamorphic
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Ansible playbook
Answer print
Anti-aliasing
Apache Kafka
API
API management platform
Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP)
Arbitrated Loop (AL)
ARC
Archive
Areal density
ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses)
ARPU
Artifact
artificial neuron
AS
ASCII
ASIC
Aspect Ratio
ASPEN
Asynchronous (data transfer)
ATM
ATSC
Audio hybrid
Auditory masking
augmented intelligence
Autonomous System
Autostereoscopic
AVB
AVC
AVC-Intra
AVCHD
AVI (.avi)
AVOD
AVS and AVS+
AWS CloudTrail
Axis (x,y,z)
B. frames
Background loading
BaM
Bandwidth
Baseband
Bayer filter/mask array
BeeMe (MIT Media Lab)
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)
black swan event
Blanking Interval
Blocks and Blocking
Blu-ray Disc (BD)
Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA)
BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708)
Bluetooth
BNC
Bonjour
Breaking the frame (Stereoscopic)
Broadband
Browse
buffer overflow
Buffering
Bug
bullwhip effect
Bus
business impact analysis (BIA)
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
center of excellence (CoE)
CES Consumer Electronics Show
Channel in a box
Checksum
Chroma
Chroma keying
Chrominance
CiaB (Channel in a Box)
CIE
CIF
CIFS
Cineon (file)
CISO (chief information security officer)
citizen development
client-server model
Clip
Clone
Cloud
Cloud Application Performance Management
cloud automation
cloud ecosystem
cloud ERP
cloud integration
cloud service provider
Cloud Testing
Cloudability
CMOS
CMTS
Co-sited sampling
coax - coaxial
COBIT
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
command-and-control server (C&C server)
Common Image Format (CIF)
communications platform as a service
communications platform as a service (CPaaS)
Component video
Composite Video
Compositing
Compression (audio)
Compression (video)
Compression ratio
computational storage
Concatenation
confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad)
Conform
Connected TV
Consolidation
Constant bit rate (CBR) compression
container management software
Content
content services platform
continuous deployment
Contouring
Convergence (Stereoscopic)
conversational commerce (voice commerce)
COPE
Corner pinning
CoS
COTS
CPCM
CRC
CRI Color Rendering Index
Cross conversion
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
cryptojacking
CSMA/CA
CSMA/CD
CSO
customer churn (customer attrition)
customer data platform (CDP)
customer experience management
Cut (edit)
Cybersecurity Insurance
D-ILA
D-VITC (Digital Vertical Interval Timecode)
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6
D7
D9
D10
D11
D12
D20
D65
Daily Jam
DAM
Dante
dark data
DARS
DAS
DASH
Data carousel
Data deduplication
data in motion
data lake
data management-as-a-service (DMaaS)
Data recorders
Data scanner
Data Scientist
data stewardship
data virtualization
Datacasting
dB
DC-SDI
DC28
DCDM
DCI
DCP
DCT (compression)
Debayer
Decibel (dB)
Decision Tree
deepfake (deep fake AI)
Defragmentation
Deliverables
Densitometer (Film)
Density
dependency hell
Depth grading (Stereoscopic)
Depth of Field
DFS
DHCP
Diagnostics
DiffServ
digital accessibility
Digital Asset Management (DAM)
Digital Betacam
Digital Cinema
Digital cinematography
digital customer experience delivery platform
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 manufacturing
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
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
Dither
DivX
DLNA
DLP
DMB
DMD
DMX 512
DNS
DNS-SD
DNxHD
Docker Content Trust
DOCSIS
Dolby
Dolby Vision
Dominance
Down conversion
Down-res
DPP
DPX
DRAM
Drop-frame timecode
DRY principle
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 Ad Insertion (DAI)
Dynamic range
Dynamic Rounding
e-discovery
EBU
ECC
EDL
Effects (digital)
Electronic program guides (EPG)
electronic protected health information
Embedded audio
Ember plus
Ember+
emotional intelligence (EI)
Encryption
endpoint security management
ENG
Entry point
EOTF
Error detection, concealment and correction
Essence
Ethernet
ETSI
ETSI compression
EV SSL certificate
EXOR
explainable AI (XAI)
exploratory testing
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
flaky test
Flash
Flash Memory
Floating edges or Floating window (Stereoscopic)
Flop
Flow
Flyback
Focal Length
fog computing
Format (television)
Format conversion
Fragmentation
Frame
Frame rate
Frame-rate conversion
Framestore
Frequency
FTP
FTTX
Full HD
Full motion video
FXP
G.fast
gamification
Gamma
Gamut
Gateway
Generation loss
Ghosting (Stereoscopic)
gig economy
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigantism (Stereoscopic)
Global (control)
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
Google Duplex
Google Transfer Appliance
Googol
GOP Group Of Pictures
GPI
GPU
Grading (a.k.a. color timing)
Grain
Grain management
Grand Master Clock
Granularity
Green Screen
growth hacking
GSN
GUI
H.264
H.265
Hadoop
Hard disk drives
Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)
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
HIPAA
HIPPI
History (editing)
HLG
Holistic Security
HRIS
HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA
HSM
HTTP
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
HTTP Smooth Streaming (HSS)
Hub (network)
Huffman coding
hybrid cloud
hyper-converged software
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 802.1p
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.3
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 1394a/b (a.k.a. FireWire, I-Link)
IEEE 1588
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE-BTS
IET Institution of Engineering and Technology
IETF
IGMP
IGMP Snoop
Illegal colors
IMF
immersive virtual reality
immutable infrastructure
IMX
In-server editing
incident response
industrial control system (ICS)
industrial internet of things (IIoT)
InfiniBand
infrastructure as code
ING
intent-based networking (IBN)
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
IT incident management
IT monitoring
ITSM (IT Service Management)
ITU
ITU IPTV standard Rec J.700
ITU-R BT.601
ITU-R BT.656
ITU-R BT.709
ITU-R BT.799
ITU-R BT.1886
ITU-R BT.2020
ITU-R BT.2100
iTV
Java
JBOD
JPEG (.JPG)
JPEG 2000 (.JP2)
JT-NM
Keiretsu
Keycode
Keyframe
Keying
Keystoning (Stereoscopic)
KLV
LARP (Live Action Role Playing)
Latency of data
Latitude
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3
Layer 4
Layer 5
Layer 6
Layer 7
Layering
LCOS
leaf-spine
Letterbox
Level
lift and shift
Linear (keying)
Linear Editing
Link Aggregation
Lip Sync
Livewire
low-code/no-code development platform
LSB
LTC
LTO-5, LTO-6
Luma/Luminance Signal
Lumen
Luminaire
Luminance
LUT
Macroblock
MADI
Main (Level/Profile) (ML) (MP)
MAM
managed service provider (MSP)
Master
Master Clock
Matrix
maturity grid (maturity model)
mDNS
Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA)
Media Network Alliance
MediaFLO
message broker
Metadata
Metamerism
Mezzanine Compression
MHEG-5
MHP
Middleware
Miniaturization (Stereoscopic)
mission-critical application
mobile application development
mobile productivity app
Mobile TV
Modem
Modulation
Moiré
moment of truth (marketing MOT)
Moore’s Law
MOS
Motion Adaptive Processing
Motion Compensated Processing
Motion JPG
Motion vectors
MP@ML, MP@HL
MP3
MPEG
MPEG DASH
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
MPEG-7
MPEG-21
MPEG-H
MPEG-HEVC H.265
MPEG-IMX
MPLS
MSB
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure)
MTF (Modulation Transfer Function)
multi-cloud strategy
Multicast
multichannel contact center
multifactor authentication (MFA)
Multimedia
Multiplex (Mux)
MXF
NAND flash memory
NAS
Native Cloud Application (NCA)
natural language understanding (NLU)
nearables
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
NetOps
Network Byte Order
Network layer
next-generation firewall (NGFW)
NFS
Nibble
Nintex Sign
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)
NVMe
NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)