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Luminance: (Light or Brightness) In video signals the component that includes information about its brightness.

Illuminance: Term quantifying the illumination of, or incident light falling on a surface.

Luminance Meter: Alternate term for exposure meter.

Brightness (Luminance): In the context of television's image quality, how bright or dark a color is.

Zone System: Is the method of determining exposure and development required for individual scenes, invented by ansel adams. It is based on analysis of subject luminosities in terms of ten gray tones, lab . . . View Full Definition

S-Video Cable: A video cable that produces better video quality than a composite cable, but not as good as a component cable. S-Video improves on composite by separating the color and luminance signals.

Composite Video: An analog, encoded video signal (such as NTSC) that includes vertical and horizontal synchronizing information. Since both luminance (brightness) and chrominance (color) signals are encoded . . . View Full Definition

S-Video: A video signal that employs two channels: luminance (Y: namely brightness) and chrominance (C: namely color). It is referred to as Y/C. It falls between component and composite video in term . . . View Full Definition

YuvYUV: The color space used by PAL and some NTSC formats (Y is the luminance and U and V are the color components).

Component (HD) Video Connection: The output of a high definition video device (such as an HDTV set-top box), or the input of an HDTV receiver or monitor, comprised of (3) primary-color signals: red, green, and blue - each o . . . View Full Definition