Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast, viewed in galleries or other venues, or distributed as video tapes or DVD discs ; sculptural installations, which may incorporate one or more television sets or video monitors, displaying ‘ live ’ or recorded images and sound ; and performances in which video representations are included.

Video monitors are the only remaining Trinitron products being produced by Sony, at a low production rate, although the basic technology can still be found in downmarket televisions from 3rd parties.

Sony also produced lines of Trinitron professional studio monitors, the PVM ( Pro Video Monitor ) and BVM ( Broadcast Video Monitor ) lines.

In April 1981 they announced the High Definition Video System ( HDVS ), a suite of MUSE equipment including cameras, recorders, Trinitron monitors and projection TVs.

Video monitors and night vision scopes are also used to detect illegal entries.

Video monitors replay historical games and plays.

Video baby monitors that have night vision mode will switch to this mode automatically in the dark.

Video monitors are used for displaying computer output, closed-circuit television ( e. g. security cameras ) and other applications requiring a two-dimensional monochrome or colour image.

Video is often fed to make-up trucks, production trailers, or separate monitors around set for cuing stunts special effects of puppeteers.

; Video Display Monitors: KITT had two CRT video display monitors on his dash for various readouts.

Video Control Operators view the action on set through video monitors and sets switches and observes dials on the video console to control contrast, framing, brilliance, color balance, and the fidelity of the transmitted image.

Professional Video monitors have various features that consumer monitors lack such as:

Some are Video Relay Service ( VRS ) calls, while others are text calls.

Video cards are designed for inputting and outputting video signals, and processing and manipulating video.

Actual working Atari Video System X machines, whose hardware is 100 % identical to the Atari 5200 do exist, but are extremely rare.

Video games, board games, and tabletop role-playing games, such as Cyberpunk 2020 ( created by Mike Pondsmith ) and Shadowrun, often feature storylines that are heavily influenced by cyberpunk writing and movies.

Signal Processing is a very mathematically oriented and intensive area forming the core of digital signal processing and it is rapidly expanding with new applications in every field of electrical engineering such as communications, control, radar, TV / Audio / Video engineering, power electronics and bio-medical engineering as many already existing analog systems are replaced with their digital counterparts.

Video CDs are classified as Mode 2 Form 2.

Several new higher-efficiency video standards ( newer than MPEG-2 Video ) are included, notably:

All standards-compliant MPEG-2 Video decoders are fully capable of playing back MPEG-1 Video streams conforming to the Constrained Parameters Bitstream syntax.

With some enhancements, MPEG-2 Video and Systems are also used in some HDTV transmission systems.

The key parts to be aware of are MPEG-4 part 2 ( including Advanced Simple Profile, used by codecs such as DivX, Xvid, Nero Digital and 3ivx and by QuickTime 6 ) and MPEG-4 part 10 ( MPEG-4 AVC / H. 264 or Advanced Video Coding, used by the x264 encoder, by Nero Digital AVC, by QuickTime 7, and by high-definition video media like Blu-ray Disc ).

Rovi's home entertainment technologies are incorporated into the vast majority of all DVD players, digital cable / satellite set-top boxes, personal computers, Digital Video Recorders ( DVRs ) and portable media players.

Examples of measures and measurement methods are Mean Opinion Score ( MOS ), Perceptual Speech Quality Measure ( PSQM ) and Perceptual Evaluation of Video Quality ( PEVQ ).

* Voice / Data / Fax / Video Processing Routers: Commonly referred to as access servers or gateways, these devices are used to route and process voice, data, video, and fax traffic on the internet.

Video games developed by Taito are still available in North America to this day, but they now bear the name of other publishers.

Video art is named after the video tape, which was most commonly used in the form's early years, but before that artists had already been working on film, and with changes in technology Hard Disk, CD-ROM, DVD, and solid state are superseding tape but the electronic video signal remains the carrier of moving image work.

Video art's intentions are varied, from exploring the boundaries of the medium itself ( e. g., Peter Campus, Double Vision ) to rigorously attacking the viewer's expectations of video as shaped by conventional cinema ( e. g., Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll ).

Video games such as Vampire: The Masquerade-Redemption and Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines are based on White Wolf's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.

Video games are also said to require suspension of disbelief.

Video signal generators are available for a wide variety of applications, and for a wide variety of digital formats ; many of these also include audio generation capability ( as the audio track is an important part of any video or television program or motion picture ).

Video CDs are authored using the Mode 2 / XA format, allowing roughly 800 megabytes of VCD data to be stored on one 80 minute CD ( versus 700 megabytes when using Mode 1 ).

Video CDs are not popular in the US, Canada and Europe, so its support is limited among mainstream software.

The Dragon also used the SN74LS783 / MC6883 Synchronous Address Multiplexer ( SAM ) and the MC6847 Video Display Generator ( VDG ).

The port is actually a Composite Video port and can be used to connect the Dragon 32 to most modern TVs to deliver a much better picture.

Video compression is used to greatly reduce the bit rate.

H. 263 has since found many applications on the internet: much Flash Video content ( as used on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, etc.

Video TV tapes, mainly consisted of popular and contemporary songs rendered by Filipino artists, and with a mix of English and Tagalog songs were soon used.

It is used on Video CD and can be used for low-quality video on DVD Video.

MPEG-2 is used in Digital Video Broadcast and Digital Versatile Discs.

The Video section, part 2 of MPEG-2, is similar to the previous MPEG-1 standard, but also provides support for interlaced video, the format used by analog broadcast TV systems.

Video game manufacturers used the 68000 as the backbone of many arcade games and home game consoles: Atari's Food Fight, from 1982, was one of the first 68000-based arcade games.

Video camera tubes in the early days of television used the photoelectric effect, for example, Philo Farnsworth's " Image dissector " used a screen charged by the photoelectric effect to transform an optical image into a scanned electronic signal.

* Packet ID, used to identify audio / video streams in DVB " Digital Video Broadcasting "

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

* Video sequencer, software or hardware that changes between video feeds-such as those used in Closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) or digital video editing

* Video – Released in 2009, the 3D animated film Monsters vs. Aliens used 100 TB of storage during development.

Video art is often said to have begun when Nam June Paik used his new Sony Portapak to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI's procession through New York City in the autumn of 1965.