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Tektronix provides test and measurement instruments, solutions and services for the computer, semiconductor, military/aerospace, consumer electronics and education industries worldwide.
a) SMPTE time code format that skips (drops) two frames per minute except on the tenth minute, so that the time code stays coincident with real time. b) The television broadcast standard for time code. c) The NTSC color coding system uses a 525/60 line/field format, it actually runs at 59.94 fields per second, or 29.97 frames per second (a difference of 1:1000). Time code identifies 30 frames per second, whereas drop frame time code compensates by dropping two frames in every minute except the tenth. Note that the 625/50 PAL system is exact and does not require drop frame.
Industry:Entertainment
Small bit of missing picture information usually caused by physical imperfections in the surface of the video tape.
Industry:Entertainment
a) A type of key border where a key is made to look three dimensional and as if it were illuminated by a light coming from the upper left by creating a border to the right and bottom. b) A key border mode which places a black, white, or gray border to the right and below the title key insert, giving a shadow effect.
Industry:Entertainment
Displays a list of possible options only when the list box is selected.
Industry:Entertainment
a) A momentary partial or complete loss of picture and/or sound caused by such things as dust, dirt on the videotape or heads, crumpled videotape, or flaws in the oxide layer of magnetic tape.
Uncompensated dropout produces white or black streaks in the picture.
b) Drop in the playback radio frequency level, resulting from an absence of oxide on a portion of the videotape, causing no audio or video information to be stored there. Dropout usually appears as a quick streak in the video.
Industry:Entertainment
The number of dropouts detected in a given length of magnetic tape.
Industry:Entertainment
One of a hierarchy of North American data transmission rates associated with ISDN and B-ISDN, 44.736 Mbps. The terrestrial and satellite format for transmitting information digitally. DS3 has a capacity of 672 voice circuits at a transmission speed of 44.736 Mbps (commonly referred to as 45 Mbps). DS3 is used for digital television distribution using mezzanine level compression – typically MPEG-2 in nature, decompressed at the local station to full bandwidth signals (such as HDTV) and then re-compressed to the ATSC’s 19.39 Mbps transmission standard.
Industry:Entertainment
An alternative to cable and analog satellite reception initially using a fixed 18-inch dish focused on one or more geostationary satellites. DSS units are able to receive multiple channels of multiplexed video and audio signals as well as programming information, email, and related data. DSS typically used MPEG-2 encoding.
Industry:Entertainment
