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71 relations: Aiwa, Anamorphic format, Arcandor, Aspect ratio (image), Auction, Azimuth recording, Beta, Betacam, Camcorder, Carrier wave, Chrominance, Coercivity, Compact Video Cassette, Companding, Crosstalk, David K. Backus, Degree (angle), Digital audio, Digital master, Economies of scale, Electronic news-gathering, Flea market, Flutter (electronics and communication), Funai, Helical scan, Hitachi, Home movies, Home video, Interlaced video, Internet, Japan, JVC, Letterboxing (filming), Los Angeles Times, Magnetic tape, Marketing, MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., Micrometre, Moviola, Multi-standard television, Murphy Radio, NEC, NTSC, Online shopping, PAL, PCM adaptor, Peep search, Peer-to-peer, Pioneer Corporation, Prosumer, ..., Pulse-code modulation, RadioShack, Sanyo, Sears, SECAM, Sony, Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., Super 8 film, Supreme Court of the United States, Technicolor, Toshiba, U-matic, VHS, VHS-C, Video, Videotape, Videotape format war, WEGA, Wow (recording), Zenith Electronics, 8 mm video format. Expand index (21 more) »
Aiwa
, is a consumer electronics company.
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Anamorphic format
Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio.
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Arcandor
Arcandor AG was a holding company located in Essen, Germany, that oversaw a number of companies operating in the businesses of mail order and internet shopping, department stores and tourism services.
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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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Auction
An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder.
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Azimuth recording
Azimuth recording is the use of a variation in angle between two recording heads that are recording data so close together on magnetic tape that crosstalk would otherwise likely occur.
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Beta
Beta (uppercase, lowercase, or cursive; bē̂ta or βήτα) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Betacam
Betacam is a family of half-inch professional videocassette products developed by Sony in 1982.
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Camcorder
A camcorder is an electronic device originally combining a video camera and a videocassette recorder.
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Carrier wave
In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a waveform (usually sinusoidal) that is modulated (modified) with an input signal for the purpose of conveying information.
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Chrominance
Chrominance (chroma or C for short) is the signal used in video systems to convey the color information of the picture, separately from the accompanying luma signal (or Y for short).
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Coercivity
In electrical engineering and materials science, the coercivity, also called the magnetic coercivity, coercive field or coercive force, is a measure of the ability of a ferromagnetic material to withstand an external magnetic field without becoming demagnetized.
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Compact Video Cassette
Compact Video Cassette (CVC) was one of the first analog recording videocassette formats to use a tape smaller than its earlier predecessors of VHS and Betamax, and was developed by Funai Electronics of Japan for portable use.
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Companding
In telecommunication and signal processing companding (occasionally called compansion) is a method of mitigating the detrimental effects of a channel with limited dynamic range.
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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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David K. Backus
David King "Dave" Backus (April 1953 – June 12, 2016) was an American economist, specializing in financial economics and international macroeconomics.
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Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.
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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 master
A digital master is an image, PDF file, digital recording or another digital asset preserved as the "original" for the purpose of archival storage, reuse and re-expression.
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Economies of scale
In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation (typically measured by amount of output produced), with cost per unit of output decreasing with increasing scale.
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Electronic news-gathering
Electronic news-gathering (ENG) is when reporters and editors make use of electronic video and audio technologies in order to gather and present news.
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Flea market
A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of bazaar that rents or provides space to people who want to sell or barter merchandise.
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Flutter (electronics and communication)
In electronics and communication, flutter is the rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
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Funai
is a Japanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Daitō, Osaka, Japan.
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Helical scan
Helical scan is a method of recording high-frequency signals on magnetic tape.
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Hitachi
() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
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Home movies
A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and intended for viewing at home by family and friends.
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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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Interlaced video
Interlaced video is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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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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JVC
,, usually referred to as JVC or The Japan Victor Company, is a Japanese international professional and consumer electronics corporation based in Yokohama.
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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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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
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Marketing
Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
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MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
MGM Studios, Inc.
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Micrometre
The micrometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American spelling), also commonly known as a micron, is an SI derived unit of length equaling (SI standard prefix "micro-".
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Moviola
A Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view a film while editing.
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Multi-standard television
Multi-standard television sets were made for use in the television industry, so that one TV set or monitor could show video content from other television systems.
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Murphy Radio
Murphy Radio was a British manufacturer of radios and televisions based in Welwyn Garden City, England.
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NEC
is a Japanese multinational provider of information technology (IT) services and products, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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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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Online shopping
Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser.
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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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PCM adaptor
A PCM adaptor is a device used for recording digital audio in the PCM format, which in turn connects to a video cassette recorder (acting as a transport) for storage and playback of the digital audio information.
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Peep search
Peep Search (or BetaSkipScan) is feature available on many videocassette recorders and most camcorders, whereby the unit can show you what is on the tape during rewind and fast forward operations.
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Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
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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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Prosumer
A prosumer is a person who consumes and produces a product.
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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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RadioShack
RadioShack, formally RadioShack Corporation, is the trade name of an American retailer founded in 1921, which operates a chain of electronics stores.
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Sanyo
is a Japanese major electronics company and formerly a member of the Fortune Global 500 whose headquarters was located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan.
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Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, reincorporated (a formality for a history-making consumer sector initial public offering) by Richard Sears and new partner Julius Rosenwald in 1906.
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SECAM
SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for "Sequential colour with memory"), is an analogue color television system first used in France.
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Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.
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Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
Sony Corp.
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Super 8 film
Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
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Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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U-matic
U-matic is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971.
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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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VHS-C
VHS-C is the compact VHS videocassette format, introduced by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in 1982, and used primarily for consumer-grade compact analog recording camcorders.
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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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Videotape
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.
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Videotape format war
The videotape format war was a period of intense competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the Betamax and Video Home System (VHS) formats.
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WEGA
WEGA is a German audio and video manufacturer, manufacturing some of Germany's earliest radio receivers.
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Wow (recording)
Wow is a relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) that can affect gramophone records and tape recorders.
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Zenith Electronics
Zenith Electronics LLC is an American brand of consumer electronics owned by South Korean company LG Electronics.
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8 mm video format
The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats for the NTSC and PAL/SECAM television systems.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax
