What is Video?

 What is Video? Sound Tracks Image Sequences Television Media
Video Complexities

     A smoothly animating series of images. More complex than simple animated gifs, videos can add richness to content and enhance the user experience. Videos are often accompanied by sound tracks; it is recommended that this not be done within the video itself but by using SMIL (Synchronized Media Integration Language).

  1. An electrical signal containing timing (synchronization), luminance (intensity), and often chrominance (color) information that, when displayed on an appropriate device, gives a visual image or representation of the original image sequences.
  2. Pertaining to the sections of a television system that carry television signals, either in unmodulated or modulated form. (188)
  3. Pertaining to the demodulated radar signal that is applied to a radar display device. (188)
  4. Pertaining to the bandwidth or data rate necessary for the transmission of real-time television pictures. [After FAA] Note: In practice, the baseband bandwidth required for the transmission of NTSC television pictures (not including the audio carriers) is approximately 5 MHz.

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 What is Video? Sound Tracks Image Sequences Television Media