Description:
The Digital Video Manual - An Essential Up-to-Date Guide to the Equipment Skills
Author: Carlton Books
ISBN-13: 9781842225158
ISBN-10: 1842225154
Publication Date: 10/28/2002
Publisher: Carlton Books
Paperback
7.6 x 10.35 inches, 160 pages
Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises a series of digital images displayed in rapid succession, usually at 24, 25, 30, or 60 frames per second. Digital video has many advantages such as easy copying, multicasting, sharing and storage.
Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard-definition component video signal in digital form. In addition to uncompressed formats, popular compressed digital video formats today include MPEG-2, H.264 and AV1. Modern interconnect standards used for…
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