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▪ I. video, n.|ˈvɪdɪəʊ|
[f. L. vidē-re to see + -o, after audio-.]
Absol. use of video-.
1. That which is displayed or to be displayed on a television screen or other cathode-ray tube; the signal corresponding to this.
1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 45/2 Video, the sight channel in television, as opposed to audio, the sound channel. 1940Broadcasting 1 June 32 Video seen 230 miles at sea. Clear steady images picked up during test. 1946[see display n. 1 c]. 1949Hollywood Q. Winter 157 And pipe the finished output of these segments, both video and audio, instantaneously and simultaneously to the kinescope recorders. 1951Proc. IRE XXXIX. 8/1 One cycle of video during active horizontal scanning represents one dark and one light picture element on a particular scanning line. 1960J. L. Bernstein Video Tape Recording p. vii, Directors, editors, cameramen, and others..would benefit if they could learn the processes involved in recording video on tape. 1964Times 7 Feb. p. iv/3 Except for its width..video tape looks exactly like sound recording tape. But it records not only sound but a continuous picture—video—as well! 1976Aviation Week 10 May 131/1 An IBM scan converter transforms radar video into a format suitable for presentation on the TV monitors. 1977Gramophone Aug. 361/2, I see it as the precursor of the all-purpose high quality cassette recorder that will record both video and audio. 1979W. C. Brandenburg Introd. Television Servicing ii. 4/2 Both the audio and video can be broadcasted from the same antenna. 1982G. White Video Techniques vi. 134 Sound is as important as the video and often more difficult to edit.
2. Television as a broadcasting medium. U.S. colloq.
1941Amer. Mercury Nov. 581/2 Vidio,..television. 1946Time 25 Feb. 72 NBC published a 55-page booklet, listing words & phrases commonly used in video. 1954Billboard 13 Nov. 21 Most of the big name spinners have taken a fling in video during the last five years, but their survival-average has been low. 1979Boston Globe 10 Apr. 32 Their play was flashed by video to an adjoining room where experts commented on it before a throng.
3. A video recorder; also, a VDU.
1958Observer 26 Jan. 14/6 The Video is like a combined tape-recorder and cinema camera. It records your television appearance complete with sound track and can be played back at the touch of a switch. 1979Television & Home Video Mar. 7/2 There's not a lot of point in owning a home video and using it to record the rubbish you might otherwise have missed. 1982Times 7 May 17/5 Last year over 900,000 videos were rented or sold in Britain. 1983What's New in Computing Jan. 5/1 The rest of the machine, the discs, the power supplies and the videos are all retained or upgraded and existing software can be run side by side with new software. 1984S. Townsend Growing Pains A. Mole 190 We are the only family in our street who haven't got a video.
4. A video recording; videotape as a recording medium.
1968Observer 14 Jan. 28/4 The days of the disc, in the pop world at least, are numbered. For soon will come the video. We will have the top 20 videos which you plug into your home video-machine. 1978Radio Times 4–10 Mar. 4/2 We've got some video of a man he has already made contact with... We'll just have to cut in with that if necessary. 1981Church Times 7 Aug. 5/3 They..went down to BBC television... Later he popped round to the school and showed them a video of themselves. 1983New Scientist 3 Mar. 569/1 The BBC recognised early on that there was money to be made from selling archive programmes on video. 1984Melody Maker 6 Oct. 3/1 Spandau Ballet have just returned from Hong Kong where they filmed the video for ‘Highly Strung’.
5. The production or use of video recordings.
1970It 9–24 Apr. 7 There are also groups of people exploiting video in any way they can think of. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 25/4 Made images move (cinema) and achieved their simultaneous recording and transmission (video). 1980Times 31 Mar. 24/6 There are enough able practitioners around to demonstrate how effectively video, like any other artistic tool, can be used. 1980C. MacCabe Godard 26 You envisaged a different kind of distribution: film and video as a handcraft industry. 1982Listener 11 Feb. 34/3 The good news is that things in video could be worse. The bad news is that things in video will get worse.
▸ video on demand n. Broadcasting a pay-per-view television service accessed via a telephone line, which allows a customer to select at any time from a list of programmes; abbreviated VOD.
1983Telephone Engineer & Managem. (Nexis) 15 July 92 Customers..will demand not only voice service, but access to data, text display, remote telemetry, *video on demand, and broadband services. 1990M. M. Mirabito & B. Morgenstein New Communications Technol. vii. 137/2 The new system, the so-called ‘video on demand,’ could offer the same collection of television shows in addition to self-help and exercise videotapes, movies, and a library of older television programs. 2000Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. Once it reaches the head end, the customer's order triggers a server that holds hundreds of digitized movies. The server signals the cable company's billing system, and the video-on-demand order is added to the customer's cable bill.
▪ II. video, v.|ˈvɪdɪəʊ|
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To make a video recording of.
1971Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture Engineers & Television Engineers LXXX. 414 Video, to dub by rerecording the video signal recovered from the tape being copied. 1984What Video? Aug. 4/2 My work..is videoing anything to do with the emergency services (road accidents, fires etc.).
2. U.S. To televise. rare.
1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 5 Colored people knew they were black, unique, separate and had a future. For paeans of Blackness were videoed throughout Black America. |