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.

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.

Video monitors are used extensively in the security industry with closed-circuit television cameras ( CCTV ) and recording devices.

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.

It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data ( CD-ROM ), write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R ), rewritable media ( CD-RW ), Video Compact Discs ( VCD ), Super Video Compact Discs ( SVCD ), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD.

They also released it as an Atari-compatible controller called " Video Command " it was also first released without the extra fire button, before that only the downwards plunge motion was connected and acted as the fire button, the pull-up and twist actions weren't connected to anything.

Video Smoothing was introduced in WMP 9 Series ( Windows XP and later only ) which upscales frame-rate by interpolating added frames, in effect giving a smoother playback on low-framerate videos.

# Video game soundtracks are often released after a game's release, usually consisting of the background music from the game's levels, menus, title screens, promo material ( such as entire songs that only segments of which were used in the game ), cut-screens and occasionally sound-effects used in the game ( Examples: Sonic Heroes, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time )

Video games and books depict Fett's work as a bounty hunter, for which he charges " famously expensive " fees and that he undertakes only when the mission meets " his harsh sense of justice.

With the acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies, Cisco began to sell a line of video recording devices called " Flip Video " that had been Pure Digital's only line of products.

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

* Digital Packet Video Link ( DPVL ), a display link standard that allows to update only portions of the screen

The original VHS cassette was only available in standard format at the time and in 1996 Fox Video re-released a VHS version of the film in widescreen allowing the viewer to see the film in a similar format to its theatrical release.

Beginning in August 2007, eBay required listings in " Video Games " and " Health & Beauty " to accept its payment system PayPal and sellers could only accept PayPal for payments in the category " Video Games: Consoles ".

Wanting to give fans something new after the massive radio and video airplay for not only the 6 singles but also the Album tracks that Radio DJs were playing off the album, the band performed " Tear It Down ", a Hysteria B-side at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.

While EchoStar's lawsuit against Microsoft was in process, DirecTV ( presumptively acquired by EchoStar, and in control by EchoStar ) dropped UltimateTV ( thus ending Microsoft's satellite product initiatives ) and picked TiVo's DirecTV product as its only Digital Video Recorder offering.

CBS only owns American syndication rights ; ancillary rights are controlled by HBO and Warner Bros. Television ( WBTV distributes the series outside the US in conjunction with HBO ; while HBO Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video own DVD rights worldwide ).

While recently released on DVD by Toei Video in Japan ( the entire series was previously issued on laserdisc in the 1990s ), the complete series has yet to be released on Region 1 DVD ; only ten episodes ( some out of broadcast order ) had been released on videocassette by Orion Home Video in the United States, which have long since gone out of print.

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For example, the CSS encryption system used on DVD Video was broken within three years of its market release in November 1996 ( see DeCSS ), but has not been changed since, because doing so would immediately render all DVD players sold prior to the change incapable of reading new DVDs — this would not only provoke a backlash amongst consumers, but also restrict the market that the new DVDs could be sold to.

Usage of the term WMV often refers to the Microsoft Windows Media Video codec only.

Although it is available for download through Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon Instant Video, it has only been physically released on VHS.

The only existing episode of the BBC series on video is " GLC ", which Polygram Video released with " The Strike " in 1994.

However, as Pioneer reminded numerous video magazines and stores in 1984, LaserDisc was a trademarked word, standing only for LaserVision products manufactured for sale by Pioneer Video or Pioneer Electronics.

CD-Vs are not to be confused with Video CDs ( which are all-digital and can only be played on VCD players, DVD players, CD-i players, computers, and later-model Laserdisc players, such as the DVL series from Pioneer that can also play DVDs ).