Control interface that allows consumer products that contain a Lanc or Control-L interface to be controlled by the computer on a VISCA device network.#
Videocassette Recorder. Generic term for a home videotaping device.#
Computer controllable Hi8 VCR by Sony which uses the VISCA control protocol. See also Vbox, VISCA.#
(Computer Graphics) Graphics defined by primitive geometric objects of given values. The vector definition is resolution independent and therefore maintains integrity as various zoom intervals and on devices of varying resolution. See Object Oriented.#
The act of refreshing the entire face of the CRT from the top or bottom.#
(Computer Graphics, Video) A pulse used to trigger the vertical retrace of a scanning electron gun from the bottom of a frame back to the top left.#
(Video Electronic Standards Association) A non-profit member organization dedicated to facilitating and promoting personal computer graphics through improved graphics standards. #
An earlier standard architecture for local bus design developed by the Video Electronics Standards Association.#
IBM's Video Graphics Array that includes the following resolutions:
320 X 200 640 X 400
320 X 400 640 X 480
360 X 400 720 X 350
640 X 200 720 X 400
640 X 350#
(Computer Graphics) The ability to connect the feature connector of the VGA card to the feature connector of a high-res graphics board for the purpose of sending or "passing" the VGA signal to the high res board for display on the high res monitor.#
Video Home System. Popular format for consumer use, developed by JVC and Matsushita. Typically delivers 250 TV lines of resolution. #
1. Any of a variety of digital or analog methods for the recording, playback or transmission of a continuous series of graphic images, usually with the appearance of motion, to be viewed on a CRT or similar device.
2. The visual component of television.#
A circuit board or on-board circuit that is mounted inside the computer to produce the signals necessary for the monitor to display information.#
The process of reducing the data contained in a series of digitized video frames to disk in an efficient manner. See compression.#
Two way audio-video communications (between two or more sites connected via network, ISDN, or fractional T1) often managed by a multimedia computer. See also Desktop Conferencing.#
The connector on the video card or computer's graphic output that hooks to the monitor cable.#
The software that enables individual DOS applications or Windows itself to interface with the display adapter. #
Generic term for an optical disc storing video information. #
Availability of television programming such as movies to consumers at starting times of their choice rather than according to a fixed program schedule. #
(Computer Graphics) A method of combining a graphic image and a live video image.#
An interface used for connecting monitors to video adapters. #
Video Random Access Memory installed directly on the display adapter card used to store the image in a monitor display buffer. Typically consisting of dual-port RAM. #
A computer system offering digital video across a network, cable TV or other distribution system.#
(Video) A dynamic signal that represents the varying levels of a video image but does not contain the sync pulses for its display. The video signal can be combined with the sync pulses into a composite signal.#
View menu option available for windows in Windows 95 that displays the name, size, type and last date and time modified for each file. #
Available from the menu bar of all Windows 95 windows. Lists options to activate the toolbar or status bar, choose between large or small icons, display items as a list, display detailed file information, arrange icons, line up icons, refresh the window and set window viewing options. #
Menu selection that allows you to control various characteristics of a window. #
Computer generated environment in which users may participate through the use of various interfaces, such as gloves, headsets, or suits.#
A computer program that can damage files and operations by attaching itself to other programs on the system, in much the same way a human virus does. #
See Swap file. #
Surgical simulation of non-invasive techniques where actual images and data from previous surgical patients are used to create a highly realistic training and preparatory environment for surgeons.#
A video communication protocol standard for synchronized control up to 7 audio-visual devices on a daisy chain network connected to the computer serial port.#
(Modeling) Any of a variety of techniques that portray the height, depth, and width of an object or scene with at least some degree of photo-realism.#
For magnetic fields and alternating electric fields, the VLF fields range from 2 kHz to 400 kHz. See ELF.#
Virtual Reality Mark-up Language. A proposed standard for 3D document creation and navigation to be used on the Internet World Wide Web.#
