High-definition television

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Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-definition video (HDTV 720p and 1080p). The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as feature films and for the physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The name refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater

TV resolution standard

discontinued optical disc format

Audio compression technologies

standard for transmitting digital video to a display

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home entertainment system that aims to replicate the experience of a movie theater

standard for video compression

aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units

SCART (also known as or , especially in France, 21-pin EuroSCART in marketing by Sharp in Asia, Euroconector in Spain, EuroAV or EXT, or EIA Multiport in the United States, as an EIA interface) is a French-originated standard and associated 21-pin connector for connecting audio-visual (AV) equipment. The name SCART comes from , "Radio and Television Receiver Manufacturers' Association", the French organisation that created the connector in the mid-1970s. The related European standard EN 50049 was refined and published in 1978 by CENELEC, calling it péritelevision, but it is commonly called by

DirecTV, LLC (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California. Originally launched on June 17, 1994, its primary service is distributing virtual multichannel video programming as well as satellite services for consumers and businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico. Its primary competitors are Dish Network and other traditional cable television providers, IP-based television services, and other over-the-top video services.

Qatari international English-language news channel

video compression format, a successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

set of standards for digital television

direct broadcast satellite & streaming TV company

video signal that has been split into two or more component channels

ABS-CBN Corporation pay television network

optical disc storage medium

used to provide the text of a show's audio portion to those who may have trouble hearing it

television brand of Sony

digital copy protection

label

video of higher resolution than original television

audio/video interface for connecting mobile devices to audio receivers and displays

right|AVCHD logo AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video. It is H.264 and Dolby AC-3 packaged into the MPEG transport stream, with a set of constraints designed around camcorders.

sound systems that use 5 speakers and one subwoofer

Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB; Japanese: , Tōgō dejitaru hōsō sābisu) is a Japanese broadcasting standard for digital television (DTV) and digital radio.

Indian direct broadcast satellite service provider

SMPTE 421, informally known as VC-1, is a video coding format. Most of it was initially developed as Microsoft's proprietary video format Windows Media Video 9 in 2003. With some enhancements including the development of a new Advanced Profile, it was officially approved as an SMPTE standard on April 3, 2006. It was primarily marketed as a lower-complexity competitor to the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard. After its development, several companies other than Microsoft asserted that they held patents that applied to the technology, including Panasonic, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics.

family of digital video interfaces

industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu-ray Disc technology

D-VHS (short for Digital VHS) is a digital video recording format developed by JVC in collaboration with Hitachi, Matsushita, and Philips. Introduced in December 1997, it was designed to record digital video, including high-definition content, using the same higher-grade tapes as S-VHS (Super VHS), which could accommodate the increased data rates required by the format.

Digital video interface specification

AVC-Intra is a term used by Panasonic to refer to its profiles of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard encapsulated in MXF-format files. Among other features, it records video with only intra coding, so as to make it possible to edit videos without loss of quality, and makes other simplifications such as making the size of each frame fixed. The original AVC-Intra defines 10-bit 4:2:0 coding at 50 Mbit/s or 10-bit 4:2:2 at 100 Mbit/s for 1080p/i or 720p/i video.

BD-J, or Blu-ray Disc Java, is a specification supporting Java ME (specifically the Personal Basis Profile of the Connected Device Configuration or CDC) Xlets for advanced content on Blu-ray Disc and the Packaged Media profile of Globally Executable MHP (GEM).

Satellite television provider

standard for HDTV image encoding and signal characteristics

system which converts video signals from one display resolution to another

bits in a digital television program that indicates recording restrictions

Indian Direct-To-Home Satellite Pay TV broadcasting company

Numericable was a major French cable operator and telecommunications services company. The company provides cable broadband services in France, Luxembourg and Portugal, offering digital and analog television, Internet, and mobile phone services. It is a cable television provider and high-speed internet access provider in metropolitan France.

technical standard for digital televisions

Optical Disc Storage Format

bi-directional audio/video interface

General Purpose Media Interface (GPMI) is an upcoming standard for an audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from a source device, such as a display controller, to a computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio. GPMI is intended to be a successor to HDMI but developed by Chinese companies.

StarTimes is a Chinese electronics and media company based in Sub-Saharan Africa.

audio coded

eight-channel surround audio system commonly used in home theater configurations

width (21) to height (9) aspect ratio

HD-MAC (High Definition Multiplexed Analogue Components) was a broadcast television standard proposed by the European Commission in 1986, as part of Eureka 95 project. It belongs to the MAC - Multiplexed Analogue Components standard family. It is an early attempt by the EEC to provide high-definition television (HDTV) in Europe. It is a complex mix of analogue signal (based on the Multiplexed Analogue Components standard), multiplexed with digital sound, and assistance data for decoding (DATV). The video signal (1250 lines/50 fields per second in 16:9 aspect ratio, with 1152 visible lines) was

recording formats for use in digital tapeless camcorders

thumb|right|225px|A sample picture of the HD1 TV channel Euro1080 was the first commercial broadcaster in Europe to broadcast full-time high-definition television (HDTV) content. It was founded by Gabriel Fehervari in 2004 and is owned by Alfacam, of which declared bankrupt in 2013.