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200 relations: A League of Their Own, Advanced Disc Filing System, American Laser Games, Amiga, Analog Protection System, Anime, Arcade game, Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song), Aspect ratio (image), Astron Belt, Atlanta, Audiophile, Back to the Future, Bananarama, Barber's pole, Basic Instinct, BBC, BBC Domesday Project, BBC Master, Betamax, Blu-ray, Bon Jovi, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bringing Out the Dead, Bugsy, Capacitance Electronic Disc, Carolco Pictures, CD Video, CD+G, CD-R, CD-ROM, Changes (David Bowie song), Chaplin (film), Chicago Tribune, Cinematronics, Citizen Kane, Cliffhanger (film), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Codec, Colour banding, Comb filter, Commodore International, Compact disc, Compact disc bronzing, Compact Disc Digital Audio, Comparison of high definition optical disc formats, Composite video, Computer Chronicles, Computer data storage, Constant angular velocity, ..., Constant linear velocity, Copyright, Cross-interleaved Reed–Solomon coding, Crosstalk, Cutthroat Island, CX (audio), Cyndi Lauper, Dailies, Data compression, Data storage, Data-rate units, David Paul Gregg, Demodulation, Digital audio, Digital data, Digital Equipment Corporation, DIN connector, Disc rot, DiscoVision, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Stereo, Domesday Book, Dragon's Lair, DTS (sound system), Duran Duran, DVD, DVD recordable, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Edit decision list, EditDroid, Eight-to-fourteen modulation, Extended play, Film frame, Flight simulator, Formula One, Framebuffer, Free Willy, Frequency modulation, General Motors, Genlock, Gibibyte, Glassbridge Enterprises, Grumpy Old Men (film), Halcyon (console), Harrison Ford, Helium–neon laser, Hertz, High-definition video, History of BBC television idents, Home video, Howard the Duck (film), HyperCard, IBM, Image resolution, Infrared, Intel 80286, Internet Archive, James Russell (inventor), Japan, Jaws (film), John, I'm Only Dancing, Karaoke, Kiosk, Laser diode, LaserActive, LaserDisc, Lawrence of Arabia (film), Letterboxing (filming), Lucasfilm, LV-ROM, Macroblock, Matrox, MCA Inc., Michael Jackson, MPEG-2, Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding, Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), Nanometre, NHK, Non-linear editing system, NTSC, Optical disc, Optical recording, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, PAL, Paramount Pictures, Personal computer, Philips, Philips CD-i, Phonograph record, Pioneer CLD-1010, Pioneer CLD-D703, Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer DVL, Pioneer PR7820, Pulse-code modulation, Pulse-width modulation, Ray Charles, Redox, RGB color model, RS-232, S/PDIF, Saga of a Star World, Sampling (signal processing), SCSI, SelectaVision, Semiconductor, Showgirls, Signal-to-noise ratio, Single (music), Song of the South, Sony, Sony HDVS, Sound + Vision (box set), Space Ace, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Stargate (film), Surround sound, Suzuka Circuit, T'Pau (band), Television lines, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Criterion Collection, The Electric Horseman, The Fugitive (1993 film), The Supermen, The Walt Disney Company, TiVo Corporation, Tokyo Raiders, TOSLINK, Unforgiven, United States Armed Forces, Vertical blanking interval, VHS, Video, Video assist, Video CD, Video High Density, Video Single Disc, Videocassette recorder, Videodisc, Videophile, Warner Bros., Write once read many, YUV, 16:9, 1984 in film, 3M, 5.1 surround sound. Expand index (150 more) »
A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
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Advanced Disc Filing System
The Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is a computing file system particular to the Acorn computer range and RISC OS-based successors.
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American Laser Games
American Laser Games was a company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico that created numerous light gun laserdisc video games featuring live action full motion video.
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Amiga
The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
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Analog Protection System
The Analog Protection System (APS), also known as Copyguard, is a DVD copy prevention system originally developed by Macrovision.
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Anime
Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.
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Arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.
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Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song)
"Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie.
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Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.
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Astron Belt
Astron Belt (アストロンベルト) is an early laserdisc video game and third-person space combat rail shooter, released in 1983 by Sega in Japan and licensed to Bally Midway for release in the United States.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Audiophile
An audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.
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Back to the Future
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.
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Bananarama
Bananarama are a British female pop music vocal group formed in London in 1981 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward.
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Barber's pole
A barber's pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft.
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Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Domesday Project
The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers, Philips, Logica and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England.
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BBC Master
The BBC Master is a home computer released by Acorn Computers in early 1986.
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Betamax
Betamax (also called Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.
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Blu-ray
Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.
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Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
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Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, based on the novel by Joe Connelly and starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore.
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Bugsy
Bugsy is a 1991 American crime-drama film directed by Barry Levinson which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel and his relationship with Virginia Hill.
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Capacitance Electronic Disc
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by RCA, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special needle and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.
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Carolco Pictures
Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an American independent motion picture production company that, within a decade, went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and the first three films of the Rambo series to being bankrupted by box office bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.
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CD Video
CD Video (also known as CDV, CD-V, or CD+V) is a format of optical media disc that was introduced in 1987 that combines the technologies of standard compact disc and LaserDisc.
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CD+G
CD+G (also known as CD-G, CD+Graphics and TV-Graphics) is an extension of the compact disc standard that can present low-resolution graphics alongside the audio data on the disc when played on a compatible device.
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CD-R
CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format.
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CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.
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Changes (David Bowie song)
"Changes" is a song by David Bowie, originally released on the album Hunky Dory in December 1971 and as a single on January 7, 1972, the day before Bowie's 25th birthday.
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Chaplin (film)
Chaplin is a 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.
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Cinematronics
Cinematronics Incorporated was a pioneering arcade game developer that had its heyday in the era of vector display games.
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Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American mystery drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.
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Cliffhanger (film)
Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
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Codec
A codec is a device or computer program for encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal.
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Colour banding
Colour banding, or Color banding (American English) is a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics.
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Comb filter
In signal processing, a comb filter is a filter implemented by adding a delayed version of a signal to itself, causing constructive and destructive interference.
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Commodore International
Commodore International (or Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel.
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Compact disc
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.
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Compact disc bronzing
Compact disc bronzing, or CD bronzing, is a specific variant of disc rot, a type of corrosion that affects the reflective layer of CDs and renders them unreadable over time.
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Compact Disc Digital Audio
Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA or CD-DA) is the standard format for audio compact discs.
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Comparison of high definition optical disc formats
This article compares the technical specifications of multiple high definition formats, including HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc; two mutually incompatible, high definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to improve upon and eventually replace the DVD standard.
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Composite video
Composite video (one channel) is an analog video transmission (without audio) that carries standard definition video typically at 480i or 576i resolution.
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Computer Chronicles
Computer Chronicles was an American half-hour television series, broadcast from 1983 to 2002 on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television, which documented the rise of the personal computer from its infancy to the immense market at the turn of the 21st century.
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Computer data storage
Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.
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Constant angular velocity
In optical storage, constant angular velocity (CAV) is a qualifier for the rated speed of any disc containing information, and may also be applied to the writing speed of recordable discs.
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Constant linear velocity
In optical storage, constant linear velocity (CLV) is a qualifier for the rated speed of an optical disc drive, and may also be applied to the writing speed of recordable discs.
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Copyright
Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Cross-interleaved Reed–Solomon coding
In the compact disc system, cross-interleaved Reed–Solomon code (CIRC) provides error detection and error correction.
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Crosstalk
In electronics, crosstalk is any phenomenon by which a signal transmitted on one circuit or channel of a transmission system creates an undesired effect in another circuit or channel.
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Cutthroat Island
Cutthroat Island is a 1995 romantic comedy adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman based on a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans, and Raymond Gideon.
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CX (audio)
CX is a noise reduction system for recorded analog audio.
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Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist.
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Dailies
Dailies, in filmmaking, are the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture.
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Data compression
In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.
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Data storage
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.
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Data-rate units
In telecommunications, data-transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.
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David Paul Gregg
Dr.
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Demodulation
Demodulation is extracting the original information-bearing signal from a carrier wave.
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Digital audio
Digital audio is audio, or simply sound, signal that has been recorded as or converted into digital form, where the sound wave of the audio signal is encoded as numerical samples in continuous sequence, typically at CD audio quality which is 16 bit sample depth over 44.1 thousand samples per second.
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Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is the discrete, discontinuous representation of information or works.
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Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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DIN connector
A DIN connector is an electrical connector that was originally standardized in the early 1970s by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), the German national standards organization.
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Disc rot
Disc rot is a phrase describing the tendency of CD or DVD or other optical discs to become unreadable due to physical or chemical deterioration.
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DiscoVision
DiscoVision is the name of several things related to the video LaserDisc format.
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Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.
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Dolby Pro Logic
Dolby Pro Logic is a surround sound processing technology developed by Dolby Laboratories, designed to decode soundtracks encoded with Dolby Surround.
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Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories, for its various stereo sound formats.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Dragon's Lair
Dragon's Lair is a video game franchise that began with the laserdisc video game Dragon's Lair originally released for the arcades in 1983.
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DTS (sound system)
DTS (Dedicated To Sound) is a series of multichannel audio technologies owned by Xperi Corporation (formerly known as Digital Theater Systems, Inc.), an American company specializing in digital surround sound formats used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications.
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.
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DVD
DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.
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DVD recordable
DVD recordable and DVD rewritable refer to part of optical disc recording technologies.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison.
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Edit decision list
An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing.
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EditDroid
The EditDroid is a computerized analog NLE (non-linear editing system), which was developed by Lucasfilm spin-off company, the Droid Works and Convergence Corporation who formed a joint venture company.
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Eight-to-fourteen modulation
Eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM) is a data encoding technique – formally, a line code – used by compact discs (CD), laserdiscs (LD) and pre-Hi-MD MiniDiscs.
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Extended play
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.
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Film frame
In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving picture.
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Flight simulator
A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes.
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Formula One
Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.
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Framebuffer
A framebuffer (frame buffer, or sometimes framestore) is a portion of RAM containing a bitmap that drives a video display.
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Free Willy
Free Willy is a 1993 American family drama film directed by Simon Wincer, produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Jennie Lew Tugend, and written by Keith A. Walker and Corey Blechman from a story by Walker.
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Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
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General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.
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Genlock
Genlock (generator locking) is a common technique where the video output of one source, or a specific reference signal from a signal generator, is used to synchronize other picture sources together.
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Gibibyte
The gibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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Glassbridge Enterprises
Glassbridge Enterprises, known as Imation Corporation prior to 2017, is an American holding company. Through the company's two subsidiaries, Glassbridge focuses primarily on investment, asset management and global enterprise data storage. Prior to the name change, Glassbridge had three core elements – traditional storage (magnetic tape and optical products), secure and scalable storage (data backup, data archive and data security for small and medium businesses) and what the company calls “audio and video information” products.
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Grumpy Old Men (film)
Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis and Buck Henry.
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Halcyon (console)
The Halcyon is a home video game console by RDI Video Systems.
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Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.
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Helium–neon laser
A helium–neon laser or HeNe laser, is a type of gas laser whose gain medium consists of a mixture of 85% helium and 15% neon inside of a small electrical discharge.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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High-definition video
High-definition video is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition.
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History of BBC television idents
The history of BBC television idents begins in the early 1950s, when the BBC first displayed a logo between programmes to identify its service.
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Home video
Home video is pre-recorded video media that is either sold, rented or streamed for home entertainment.
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Howard the Duck (film)
Howard the Duck is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by Willard Huyck and starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, and Tim Robbins.
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HyperCard
HyperCard is application software and a programming tool for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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Image resolution
Image resolution is the detail an image holds.
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Infrared
Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.
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Intel 80286
The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on 1 February 1982.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
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James Russell (inventor)
James T. Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name.
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John, I'm Only Dancing
"John, I’m Only Dancing" is a single by David Bowie, released in two versions – entirely different recordings, but carrying the same catalogue number – in September 1972 and April 1973.
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Karaoke
Karaoke, is a form of interactive entertainment or video game developed in Japan in which an amateur singer sings along with recorded music (a music video) using a microphone.
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Kiosk
A kiosk is a small, separated garden pavilion open on some or all sides.
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Laser diode
A laser diode, (LD), injection laser diode (ILD), or diode laser is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in which the laser beam is created at the diode's junction.
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LaserActive
The is a converged device and fourth-generation home video game console capable of playing Laserdiscs, Compact Discs, console games, and LD-G karaoke discs.
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LaserDisc
LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.
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Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence.
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Letterboxing (filming)
Letterboxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.
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Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm Ltd.
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LV-ROM
LV-ROM is an optical disc format developed by Philips Electronics to integrate analog video and computer software for interactive multimedia.
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Macroblock
Macroblock is a processing unit in image and video compression formats based on linear block transforms, such as the discrete cosine transform (DCT).
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Matrox
Matrox is a producer of video card components and equipment for personal computers.
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MCA Inc.
MCA Inc.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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MPEG-2
MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".
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Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding
MUSE (Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding), was a dot-interlaced digital video compression system that used analog modulation for transmission to deliver 1125-line high definition video signals to the home.
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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.
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Nanometre
The nanometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre (m).
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NHK
is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.
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Non-linear editing system
Non-destructive editing is a form of audio, video or image editing where the original content is not modified in the course of editing, instead the edits are specified and modified by specialized software.
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NTSC
NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee,National Television System Committee (1951–1953),, 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables.
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Optical disc
In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc (OD) is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data (bits) in the form of pits (binary value of 0 or off, due to lack of reflection when read) and lands (binary value of 1 or on, due to a reflection when read) on a special material (often aluminium) on one of its flat surfaces.
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Optical recording
The history of optical recording can be divided into a few number of distinct major contributions.
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Orange Sky Golden Harvest
Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH), previously known as Golden Harvest from 1970 to 2009, is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong.
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PAL
Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a color encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i).
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.
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Personal computer
A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.
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Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips, stylized as PHILIPS) is a Dutch multinational technology company headquartered in Amsterdam currently focused in the area of healthcare.
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Philips CD-i
The Philips CD-i (an abbreviation of Compact Disc Interactive) is an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V., who supported it from December 1991 into the late 1990s.
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Pioneer CLD-1010
The Pioneer CLD-1010 is a LaserDisc player introduced by Pioneer Electronics in 1987 as the last of their top-spec players not to be part of their "Elite" lineup.
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Pioneer CLD-D703
The Pioneer CLD-D703, or the CLD-D770 in non-North American marketplaces, was a part of Pioneer's 700 Series of upper mid-range LaserDisc players, and the first player in the family and top of Pioneer's 1994 North American line.
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Pioneer Corporation
commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo, Japan that specializes in digital entertainment products.
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Pioneer DVL
The DVL-XXXX Series of LaserDisc home video players were manufactured by Pioneer Corporation and were some of the last LaserDisc players manufactured before the format's retirement.
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Pioneer PR7820
The Pioneer PR-7820 was the first mass-produced industrial LaserDisc player, sold originally as the MCA DiscoVision PR-7820.
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Pulse-code modulation
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals.
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Pulse-width modulation
Pulse-width modulation (PWM), or pulse-duration modulation (PDM), is a modulation technique used to encode a message into a pulsing signal.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.
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Redox
Redox (short for reduction–oxidation reaction) (pronunciation: or) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed.
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RGB color model
The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.
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RS-232
In telecommunications, RS-232, Recommended Standard 232 is a standard introduced in 1960 for serial communication transmission of data.
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S/PDIF
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a type of digital audio interconnect used in consumer audio equipment to output audio over reasonably short distances.
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Saga of a Star World
"Saga of a Star World" (or "Battlestar Galactica") is the pilot for the American science fiction television series of Battlestar Galactica which was produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson.
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Sampling (signal processing)
In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal.
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SCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices.
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SelectaVision
"SelectaVision" was a trademark name used on four classes of device by RCA.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor material has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor – such as copper, gold etc.
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Showgirls
Showgirls is a 1995 French-American erotic drama film written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Signal-to-noise ratio
Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.
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Single (music)
In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.
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Song of the South
Song of the South is a 1946 American live-action/animated musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
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Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.
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Sony HDVS
Sony HDVS is a range of high-definition video equipment developed in the 1980s to support an early analog high-definition television system thought to be the broadcast television systems that would be in use today.
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Sound + Vision (box set)
Sound + Vision is David Bowie's box set compilation released on Rykodisc in 1989.
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Space Ace
Space Ace is a laserdisc video game produced by Bluth Group, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems).
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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Stargate (film)
Stargate is a 1994 science fiction adventure film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Carolco Pictures.
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Surround sound
Surround sound is a technique for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with additional audio channels from speakers that surround the listener (surround channels).
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Suzuka Circuit
The Suzuka International Racing Course is a motorsport race track located in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Mobilityland Corporation, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co, Ltd.
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T'Pau (band)
T'Pau is a British pop group led by singer Carol Decker.
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Television lines
Television lines (TVL) is a specification of an analog camera's or monitors's horizontal resolution power.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also referred to as Terminator 2 or T2) is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron.
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The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.
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The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American western adventure-romance film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack.
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The Fugitive (1993 film)
The Fugitive is a 1993 American thriller film based on the 1960s television series of the same name created by Roy Huggins.
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The Supermen
"The Supermen" is a song written by David Bowie in 1970 and released as the closing track on the album The Man Who Sold the World.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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TiVo Corporation
TiVo Corporation (formerly Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation) is an American technology company.
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Tokyo Raiders
Tokyo Raiders is a 2000 Hong Kong action film set in Hong Kong and Tokyo, directed by Jingle Ma and starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen.
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TOSLINK
TOSLINK (from Toshiba Link TOSLINK Transmitter Module specifications.) is a standardized optical fiber connector system.
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Unforgiven
Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.
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Vertical blanking interval
In a raster graphics display, the vertical blanking interval (VBI), also known as the vertical interval or VBLANK, is the time between the end of the final line of a frame or field and the beginning of the first line of the next frame.
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VHS
The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.
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Video
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.
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Video assist
Video assist is a system used in filmmaking which allows filmmakers to view a video version of a take immediately after it is filmed.
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Video CD
Video CD (abbreviated as VCD, and also known as Compact Disc digital video) is a home video format and the first format for distributing films on standard optical discs.
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Video High Density
Video High Density (VHD) is a videodisc format which was marketed predominantly in Japan by JVC.
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Video Single Disc
Video Single Disc (VSD) was a disc-based format that carried the same analog video information as a LaserDisc, but on a 12-centimetre (4.75 inch) diameter CD-DA-sized disc.
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Videocassette recorder
A videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.
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Videodisc
Videodisc (or video disc) is a general term for a laser- or stylus-readable random-access disc that contains both audio and analog video signals recorded in an analog form.
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Videophile
A videophile (literally, "one who loves sight") is one who is concerned with achieving high-quality results in the recording and playback of movies, TV programs, etc.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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Write once read many
Write once read many (WORM) describes a data storage device in which information, once written, cannot be modified.
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YUV
YUV is a color encoding system typically used as part of a color image pipeline.
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16:9
16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.
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1984 in film
The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
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3M
The 3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul.
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5.1 surround sound
5.1 surround sound ("five-point one") is the common name for six channel surround sound audio systems.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
