Video

Video is the technology of processing electronic signals representing moving pictures. All television is video, but not all video is television. In addition to the use of video in television, video is widely used in engineering, scientific, manufacturing, and security applications. However, other uses of video have tended to use the video formats designed for television use.

The term video is also used as abbreviation for video tape, as well as for video recorder and video player.

Analog video encoding formats

• NTSC
• PAL
• SECAM

Analog video broadcast and inter-connection formats

• RF
• composite video
• S-Video
• RGB

Analog video tape formats

• on Tape[?]
  • Ampex
  • VERA (BBC)
  • U-matic[?] (Sony)
  • Betamax (Sony)
  • Betacam[?]
  • VHS (JVC)
  • S-VHS (JVC)
  • VHS-C[?] (JVC)
  • Video 2000[?] (Philips)
  • 8mm tape[?]
  • Hi8[?]

Digital Video encoding formats

• CCIR 601
• MPEG-2
• H.261[?]
• H.263
• 24p (HiDef film-quality professional video)

Digital Video tape formats

• D1[?]
• D3[?]
• D5[?]
• Digital Betacam[?]
• DV
• MiniDV
• Digital8

see also:

• audio
• Film formats
• Telecine
• codecs
• timecode
• Television
• Video art
• Closed-circuit television
• Video coding