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Digital Video Effects (DVE): Special effects created with digital, computer-based technology. Compare with electronic effects.

Electronic Effects: Special effects (including fades, dissolves and keying) created on video using an analog special effects generator. Compare with digital video effects (DVE).

Music Video: A visual representation of or accompaniment to a song or other musical selection that usually exists independently as a recording.

Limited Effects Theory: A type of communication theory (e.g., social learning theory, vicarious catharsis theory) that regards media as having conditional influences on the viewer: due to intervening variables, the . . . View Full Definition

Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDS): A multichannel video program distributor is an entity such as a cable operator, a BRS/EBS provider, a direct broadcast satellite service, a television receive-only satellite program distribu . . . View Full Definition

Noninterlaced Video: Each line is scanned during each total vertical (full) screen refresh. Computer monitors use typically noninterlaced video.

Personal Digital Cellular (PDC): The Japanese cellular standard.

Parallel Digital: A digital video interface which uses twisted pair wiring and 25-pin D connectors to convey the bits of a digital video signal in parallel. There are various component and composite parallel . . . View Full Definition

Keyboard-Video-Mouse Switch (KVM): A piece of hardware that connects two or more computers to a single keyboard, monitor and mouse. Imagine you have a row of 4 computers that all serve as file servers. Why waste money buying . . . View Full Definition

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI): An interface as well as file format standard for using a musical instrument with a computer and recording and storing the data from it. A MIDI file contains information about recorded notes: . . . View Full Definition