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Video Display Controller A Video Display Controller or VDC is an integrated circuit which is the main component in a video signal generator, a device responsible for the production of a TV video signal in a computing or game system. Some VDC's also generate a sound signal, but in that case it's not their main function.
Video editing software Video editing software is application software that handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, add special effects and transitions, and sometimes includes the ability to encode the video for creation of a DVD, Web video, mobile phone video or video podcast.
Video extensometer A video extensometer is a device that is capable of performing stress/strain measurements using video frames. The specimen under test is marked with special markers (usually special stickers or with pens) and the distance between these markers are constantly tracked, while the specimen is stretched.
Video Encoded Invisible Light Video Encoded Invisible Light (VEIL) is a technology for encoding low-bandwidth digital data bitstream in video signal, developed by VEIL Interactive Technologies. VEIL is compatible with multiple formats of video signals, including PAL, SECAM, and NTSC.
Video formats A video format describes how one device sends a video pictures to another device, such as the way that a DVD player sends pictures to a television, or a computer to a monitor. More formally, the video format describes the sequence and structure of frames that create the moving video image.
Video Flow Video Flow is the title of a sixty-minute music video program block that airs on Canadian music television station MuchMusic. The program is similar to the MuchMusic Countdown, but it plays well-known recently released mainstream music videos at random and is usually hosted by a VJ.
Video gag Video Gag (pronounced vee-day-oh gag) is a French television show that airs weekly on French broadcast channel TF1. It is essentially a French version of "America's Funniest Home Videos" and uses funny videos sent in by viewers.
Video game accessory A video game accessory is a separate piece of hardware that is required to use a video game console, or one that enriches the video game's play experience. Essentially, video game accessories are everything except the console itself, such as controllers, memory, and AC and audio/visual cables.
Video game console A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer. The term is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer, which has many other functions, or arcade games, which are designed for businesses that buy and then charge others to play.
Video game conversion In video gaming parlance, a conversion is the production of a game on one computer or console that was originally written for another system. Over the years, video game conversion has taken form in a number of different ways, both in their style and the method in which they were converted.
Video game crash of 1983 The video game crash of 1983 was the year long crash of the video game industry and the bankruptcy of a number of companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America in late 1983 and early 1984. It brought an end to what is considered the second era of console video gaming.
Video game montage A video game [is a collaboration of stunt]s pulled off in a [[video game that are skillful, funny, or just deemed interesting. Montages can be made by applying a capture card, recording video game footage with it and putting it in an editor and changing it up.
Video game publisher Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. Most video game publishers also produce and publish computer games, but the term "video game publisher" is often used generically to refer to companies that publish interactive games regardless of the target platform.
Video games censored by Nintendo of America Nintendo of America has gained notoriety for its formerly strict censorship policy, particularly with regard to video games bearing religious symbols (for instance pentagrams), violence, profane language and so forth. The reason for this policy is attributed to its attempt to make its video games more family friendly.
Video Game Museum Video Game Museum, (known mostly as VGMuseum or VGM) is a video game database with an extensive collection of screenshots from title screens, general gameplay and game endings. It also features a collection of scans of video game covers, boxes, as well as current and old video game print advertisements.
Video Game Pianist The Video Game Pianist (real name Martin Leung) (also known as VGP) (formerly The Blindfolded Pianist) (born October 18, 1986) is one of the first pianists to gain worldwide recognition for playing popular video game music on the piano, both in concert venues and in online videos. Video Game Pianist is the alter ego of Martin Leung Unlike many recognized musicians, Video Game Pianist's breakthrough occurred almost entirely online when, on July 2, 2004, a video of him playing the Super Mario Bros] theme blindfolded appeared on [[eBaum's World.
Video Games & Computer Entertainment VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (abbreviated as VG&CE) was an American magazine dedicated to covering video games on computers, home consoles and arcades. It was published by Larry Flynt Publications (LFP) between the late-1980s until the mid-1990s.
Video Games Live Video Games Live is a concert tour featuring music from a variety of video games, combined with video, light, lasers, and special effects. Debuting in the summer of 2005, Video Games Live was one of the first major video game music concerts to be performed in the United States.
Video Girl Len Video Girl Len is a manga series by Masakazu Katsura, following a similar theme and story to Video Girl Ai. The story of Video Girl Len is 2 volumes long, and is distributed as Volumes 14 and 15 of the Video Girl Ai manga series.
Video Graphics Array Video Graphics Array (VGA) is an analog computer display standard first marketed in 1987 by IBM. While it has been obsolete for some time except in the pocket PC market where it is becoming the new standard, it was the last graphical standard that the majority of manufacturers decided to follow, making it the lowest common denominator that all PC graphics hardware supports prior to a device-specific driver being loaded.
Video hosting service A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that video.
Video Hits Australia Top 100 Video Clips Video Hits, the Australian music video program, celebrated twenty years on air in 2006. To celebrate this feat, a poll was conducted by internet and SMS voting to find the Top 100 music videos of the past twenty years.
Video installation Video installation is an art method in western contemporary art that combines video technology with installation art. The form became more widespread in the 1980s when high quality video projectors became cheaper and more reliable.
Video In Video Out Video In Video Out, usually seen as the acronym VIVO (commonly pronounced vee-voh), enables video cards to have bidirectional (input and output) video transfer through a Mini-DIN connector and a specialised splitter cable.
Video IVR Video IVR is conceptually similar to voice IVR but with the addition of video to enhance the experience. The user interacts with a real-time video stream by pressing DTMF buttons on his terminal (typically a mobile handset).
Video Justice Video Justice is a new television primetime program produced by John Langely airing on the television cable stations Court TV and Spike TV. The program focuses on criminals who were captured on camera in the act of the crime.
Video Killed the Radio Star "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a New Wave song released in 1979 by the British group The Buggles that celebrates the golden days of radio. With broadcast-quality vocals and a bouncy rhythm, the song plays like a jingle.
Video masters tv Video Masters TV is an online television show devoted to reviewing television, video games, and movies. Since February of 1995, creator and host John Gibson has spent 12 years bringing viewers not just ordinary reviews, but humorous, and at times, edgy.
Video memory Video memory is a term generally used in computers to describe some form of writable memory, usually RAM, dedicated to the purpose of holding the information necessary for a graphics card to drive a display device. In modern 3D graphics cards, the video memory may also hold 3D vector data, textures, backbuffers, overlays and GPU programs.
Video motion analysis Video Motion Analysis is the technique used to get information about moving objects in real time from video. Examples of this include gait analysis, sport replays (where they decide if something is inside or outside a line), or speed/acceleration calculations.
Video nasty Video nasty was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video that were held by some to be unfit for domestic viewing. Many of these "video nasties" were low-budget horror films produced in Italy and the United States.
Video on demand Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive television system. VOD systems either "stream" content, allowing viewing while the video is being downloaded, or "download" it in which the program is brought in its entirety to a set-top box before viewing starts.
Video on Demand (Starcraft) In terms of Starcraft, a video on demand (VOD) is defined as any recording of a live Starcraft game via video camera or screencast. A Starcraft VOD is especially distinguished from a Starcraft replay, which is an in-game recording of the match done by the game's software.
Video overlay Video overlay is any technique used to display a video window on a computer display while bypassing the chain of CPU - graphics card - computer monitor. This is done in order to speed up the video display, and it is commonly used, for example, by TV tuner cards and early 3D graphics accelerator cards.
Video painting Video Paintings are ambient video works presented on LCD panels and wall-mounted in the same manner as traditional paintings; they are a form of video art. Content in this emergent form is designed to work at all times as either a highly aware foreground experience, or as passive background.
Video player (software) A video player is a kind of media player for playing back digital video data from media such as optical discs (for example, DVD, VCD), as well as from files of appropriate formats such as MPEG, AVI, RealVideo, and QuickTime.
Video podcast Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video where the RSS feed is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe using a PC, TV, set-top box, media center or mobile multimedia device).
Video projector A video projector takes a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system. All video projectors use a very bright light to project the image, and most modern ones can correct any curves, blurriness, and other inconsistencies through manual settings.
Video Professor Video Professor is a television-advertised product which claims to offer easy-to-use tutorials for a variety of computer-related subjects, such as learning Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows, and eBay. The Commercials are usually hosted by John Scherer.
Video recorder scheduling code VCR Plus+, G-Code, VideoPlus+ and ShowView are different names for essentially the same system for programming video recorders. These names are all registered trademarks of Gemstar-TV Guide International, who developed these algorithms for use in integrated endecs.
Video referee A video referee, also known as the instant replay official, television match official or third umpire, is a sports official called upon to help adjudicate a sports match using television footage. Video referees are used in many sports, including cricket, rugby union, rugby league and ice hockey.
Video remix A video remix is a derivative video from the original version, made using techniques of video editing or digital media "mixing". User-generated digital video seen on sites such as Google Video and Youtube provides a large pool of digital video content which can be used as base works for new mixes and remixes.
Video Relay Service A Video Relay Service (VRS) is a telecommunication service that enables real-time two-way communication between deaf, hard of hearing and speech-disabled individuals using a videophone and telephone users. In America, the service is regulated by the FCC.
Video sampling Similar to music sampling, video sampling is the act of appropriating a portion of preexisting video footage (often copyrighted material) and reusing it to create a new video. The legality of video sampling falls under the fair use doctrine in the United States copyright law.
Video scaler A video scaler is a processing device for converting video signals between arbitrary resolutions. They are usually used for converting low resolution interlaced signals (such as composite video or S-video) to higher resolution non-interlaced like HDTV, although they can also work in the reverse.
Video search engine A video search engine is a web-based search engine which crawls the web for video content. Some video search engines parse externally hosted content while others allow content to be uploaded and hosted on their own servers.
Video sender A video sender is a device for wirelessly transmitting domestic video signals from one room to another. For example, sending the output of a satellite TV decoder located in the lounge, to a television in the bedroom.
Video sensor technology The word video sensor (also video-sensor or videosensors) describes a technique of digital image analysis. A video sensor is an application software, which supports the interpretation of digital images and frame rates.
Video signal generator A video signal generator is a type of signal generator which outputs predetermined video and/or television waveforms, and other signals used to stimulate faults in, or aid in parametric measurements of, television and video systems. There are several different types of video signal generators in widespread use.
Video single A video single is a music single in the form of a videotape. Although the format has existed in form since the early 1980s in the form of Video 45s, the format gained higher levels of mainstream popularity when Madonna released "Justify My Love" as a video single in 1990 following the blacklisting of the video by MTV.
Video Singles Video Singles is a VHS compilation released by Wet Wet Wet in 1987. It features the videos to five songs from the band's debut album, Popped In Souled Out, all of which, with the exception of "I Remember", were released as singles.
Video Smash Hits Video Smash Hits was an Australian music television show which was broadcast on the Seven Network in the early- to mid-1990s. It is not to be confused with Video Hits, Network Ten's long running music video show which aired opposite Video Smash Hits on Saturday mornings.
Video Soul Video Soul (originally a half-hour long video show that premiere in June 1981) was a 2-hour long American music video program aired on BET. It was devoted to helping break and showcase new R&B/soul recording artists/performers.
Video Sound Video Sound is the sophomore release of the Canadian rock band The Waking Eyes. The album was produced by Arnold Lanni who is known for his work with many Canadian bands such as Our Lady Peace, Simple Plan and Finger Eleven.
Video tap A video tap is an accessory for a motion picture camera used to provide a video feed from the camera lens. Video taps are used to allow the crew to see what is in the camera's frame without having to look through the viewfinder, as well as allowing video to be captured that can be used to create an immediate rough cut, if needed.
Video tape recorder A video tape recorder (VTR), is a tape recorder that can record video material. The video cassette recorder (VCR), where the videotape is enclosed in a user-friendly cassette shell, is the most familiar type of VTR known to consumers.
Video teleconferencing unit A video teleconferencing unit (VTU) is a piece of electrical equipment that performs video teleconference functions, such as coding and decoding of audio and video signals and multiplexing of video, audio, data, and control signals, and that usually does not include I/O devices, cryptographic devices, network interface equipment, network connections, or the communications network to which the unit is connected.
Video tolling Video tolling (sometimes referred to as Video Billing) is a technique for toll collection using video or still images of a vehicle's license plate to identify the vehicle for payment. In a video tolling system the license plate number can be extracted from the image either by using Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology or manual data-entry clerks.
Video Toaster The NewTek Video Toaster is a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of standard-definition NTSC and PAL video on personal computers. It comprises various tools for video switching, chroma keying, character generation, animation, and image manipulation.
Video Village Video Village was an American television game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions which aired on the CBS network in daytime from 1960 to 1962 and in primetime in 1961. It was notable for the use of its unique "living board game" concept, as well as being one of the first new game shows to premiere after the quiz show scandals.
Video Voyeur Video Voyeur or Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story is a 2002 television drama made by Lifetime Television, directed by Tim Hunter, starring Angie Harmon. It is based on the real-life story of Susan Wilson, a Louisiana woman, who was video taped in her own home by a neighbor.
Videobook The name VideoBook was first registered and used in the UK in 1982, by Yorkshire film producers Studio 21 as a trading title and style for an innovative set of local-interest, sell-thru video films, at a time when most video films were only available as rentals. The name VideoBook was in commercial use by Studio 21 in the UK until 2000, and has recently been acquired by a new UK film production company.
Videobrasil In 1983, despite the fact that electronic art had just arrived in Brazil, Associação Cultural Videobrasil (or simply Videobrasil) organized the first edition of what would later become the International Electronic Art Festival, directed by Solange Farkas, gathering a whole generation of Brazilian pioneers. More than 20 years later, the Festival has established itself as an event of international relevance.
Videocassette recorder The videocassette recorder (or VCR, more commonly known in the British Isles as the video recorder), is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable videotape cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. Many VCRs have their own tuner (for direct TV reception) and a programmable timer (for unattended recording of a certain channel at a particular time).
Videocipher VideoCipher is a brand name of analog scrambling equipment for satellite television invented in 1983 by Linkabit systems, which was bought out by MA/COM in 1985. MA/COM was finally bought out by General Instrument in 1987.
Videocon Tri-Series 2005-06 The Videocon Tri-Series was a three-team one-day international cricket tournament taking place in Zimbabwe between the hosts Zimbabwe, India and New Zealand. It started on 24 August 2005 and ended with the final on 6 September 2005, which New Zealand won by six wickets.
Videoconferencing A videoconference (also known as a videoteleconference) is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It has also been called visual collaboration and is a type of groupware.
VideoCrypt VideoCrypt is a cryptographic, smartcard-based conditional access television encryption system that scrambles analogue pay-TV signals. It was introduced in 1989 by News Datacom and was used initially by Sky TV and subsequently by several other broadcasters on the Astra satellites.
Videodisc Videodisc (or video disc) is a general term for a laser- or stylus-readable random-access circular disc that contains both audio and video signals recorded in an analog form. Typically, it is a reference to any such media that predates the mainstream popularity of the DVD format.
VideoFACT VideoFACT is a Canadian fund, operated by MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, MusiquePlus and Musimax, which provides grants to new and emerging Canadian recording artists to help them produce music videos. FACT stands for Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent.
Videogame art Videogame art involves the use of patched or modified computer and video games or the repurposing of existing games or game structures. Often this modification is through the use of level editors, though other techniques exist.
Videogame Rating Council The Videogame Rating Council (VRC) was introduced by Sega of America in 1993 to rate all video games that were released for sale in the United States of America on the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, and Sega CD and rarely, some computer games. The rating had to clearly appear on the front of the box and on all the advertisements for the video game.
Videogame: The Movie: The Game Videogame: The Movie: The Game, also known as VG:TM:TG, is a concept album of 45 chiptunes and arrangements. On December 2, 2005, Xoc completed a fictional 1,800 word historical account of both Videogame: The Movie, allegedly the very first video game movie, and Videogame: The Movie: The Game, an illegal NES game that appeared years after the movie yet had no significant connection.
Videogrammetry Videogrammetry is a measurement technology in which the three-dimensional coordinates of points on an object are determined by measurements made in two or more video images taken from different angles. Videogrammetry is typically used in manufacturing.
Videographer Strictly speaking, a videographer is a person who works in the video medium — recording moving images on tape, disk, or other electro-mechanical device, or even broadcasting live. On a set, he or she is responsible for the camera and lighting.
Videogroove Videogroove (aka VG) is a video magazine created to cover the latest and greatest of inline skating. Videogroove has been around since the birth of aggressive skating (1993) and has evolved along with the sport into a staple of the rollerblading community.
VideoGaiden videoGaiden is a Scottish computer games television show broadcast by BBC Scotland. Its creators and presenters, Robert Florence ("Rab") and Ryan Macleod, are responsible for the internet-distributed videogaming show Consolevania, upon which the show is based.
VideoGuard VideoGuard, produced by NDS, is a digital encryption system for use with conditional access television broadcasting. It is used almost exclusively on digital satellite television (DVB-S) systems operated by News Corporation, which owns the majority of NDS.
Videoland Television Network Videoland Television Network is a cable network program provider in Taiwan, founded in 1983 by Koos Group. Videoland is one of Taiwan's major satellite television providers, offering seven channels of programming on Videoland Sports, Videoland Japan, Videoland Movie Channel, Videoland General Entertainment Channel (On-TV), Videoland Drama Channel, Videoland MaxTV and Videoland Kids.
VideoLAN VideoLAN is a software development project comprising two multi-platform computer programs—VLC media player and VideoLAN Server (VLS)—and several audio/video decoding and decryption libraries. VideoLAN distributes open source software under the GNU license.
Videomaut Videomaut (Video Toll) is a toll collection system used by the Austrian financing provider for motorways (Autobahnen) and expressways (SchnellstraĂźen), ASFINAG (Autobahnen-und-SchnellstraĂźen-Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft) on some motorways in Austria.
Videon Cablesystems The origins of Videon date back to October, 1959 where original General Manager Claude Boucher applied to the Lakehead Public Utilities Board in Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to provide cable television service to the town thru the new company Lakehead Videon.. The cable system was built and was sold to Maclean-Hunter in July, 1970.
Videonext videoNEXT is a Mclean based software company developing content management software for video surveillance and physical security. videoNEXT was founded in May, 1999 and originally developed IP video conference software.
Videoplace In the mid-1970s, Myron Krueger established an artificial reality laboratory called the Videoplace. His idea with the Videoplace was the creation of an artificial reality that surrounded the users, and responded to their movements and actions, without being encumbered by the use of goggles or gloves.
Videoscandals The Videoscandals were political scandals in Mexico in 2004 when videos of prominent politicians taken with hidden cameras were made public. The majority of them involve close collaborators of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then Mayor of Mexico City: his finance chief Gustavo Ponce and right-hand man René Bejarano; and notable figures from his party, the PRD, in corrupt dealings with former business man Carlos Ahumada.
Videosift Videosift is a "video aggregator" designed to showcase unique and interesting videos, the name of the site being a direct allusion to the metaphor of sifting wheat from chaff. It was founded by Brian Houston in February 2006, who was quickly joined by James Roe as a co-founder.
Videotage Videotage (literally merging the two concepts of "Video" and "Montage") is a non-profit interdisciplinary artist collective, founded in 1985 which focuses on the development of video and new media art in Hong Kong.
Videotape Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In virtually all cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds.
Videotape format war The videotape format war was a period of an intense format war of rival incompatible models of video cassette recorders in the 1970s and early 1980s. It has gone down in marketing history as the classic example of this kind of market competition.
Videotex From the late 1970s to mid-1980s, Videotex as one of the earliest implementations of "end-user information systems", delivers information (usually pages of text) to a user in computer-like format, typically to be displayed on a television .
Videotopia Originally the brainchild of Keith Feinstein, Videotopia is a travelling science museum exhibition documenting the entire history of video games. It is the most comprehensive such exhibit currently in existence, encompassing not only every significant commercial video arcade machine and game console ever produced, but also interactive multimedia kiosks containing information about the history of the games' development and their impact on popular culture.
Videre Videre refers to the subjective nature of the Umbra in the World of Darkness family of role-playing games. What a person encounters in the Umbra has much to do with what they believe and what their outlook towards the Tellurian (or multiverse) is.
Videsha Seva Padakkama The Videsha Seva Padakkama() medal will be granted to all ranks of the Regular and Volunteer Forces of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Sri Lanka for active service outside the territorial limits of the Island, given that such service is linked with active service in an overseas military assignment or campaign or in the defense of Sri Lanka or for service connected with military or peace keeping operations conducted under the support of the United Nations Organization as defined in the regulations hereinafter made.
Vidfinn In Norse mythology, Vidfinn was the father of HjĂşki and Bil, a brother and sister (respectively) who according to Gylfaginning were taken up from the earth by the moon as they were fetching water from the well called Byrgir, bearing on their shoulders the cask called Saegr and the pole called Simul. They now follow him on his nocturnal journey, "as may be seen from the earth".
VidFIRE VidFIRE, short for Video Field Interpolation Restoration Effect, is a restoration technique developed by Peter Finklestone. The basic idea behind VidFIRE is to restore the video-look to footage originally shot on videotape but which now exists only as a telerecording.
Vidhan Parishad The Vidhan Parishad also known as Legislative Council forms a part of the state legislatures of India. In 5 of India's 28 states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir), the Legislative Council serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
Vidhan Sabha The Vidhan Sabha also known as Legislative Assembly is the lower house of state legislature in India. Members of the Vidhan Sabha are direct representatives of the people of the particular state as they are directly elected by an electorate consisting of all adult citizens of that state.
Vidhana Soudha The Vidhana Soudha, located in Bangalore (Bengaluru), is the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka. It is an imposing building, constructed in a style, sometimes described as 'Neo-Dravidian', incorporates elements of Indo-Saracenic, Rajasthani Jharokha and Dravidian styles.
Vidhurashwatha Vidhurashwatha is a village in the Kolar District of Karnataka State in India. As the name suggests, it is historically connected with Vidhura from Mahabharata who is known to have planted a banyan tree which is still living.
Vidin Heights Vidin Heights (Vidinski Vazvisheniya 'vi-din-ski v&z-vi-'she-ni-ya) are ice-covered heights rising to 604 m on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica. The feature is approximately 8 km long, trending WSW-ENE towards Inott Point.

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