video recordingn.
/ˈvɪdɪəʊ rᵻˌkɔːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈvɪdioʊ rəˌkɔrdɪŋ/ 1.
a. U.S. The process of making a recording of a television broadcast, esp. by making a cinematographic film of what is displayed on the television screen. Cf. kinescoping n. at kinescope n. Derivatives. Now disused except as merged in sense 1b.In quot. 1944, referring to a process of making a recording of a television broadcast on a wax cylinder, operating on the principle of the phonograph.
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1944 Billboard 18 Nov. 65/2 Video recording requires impressions carrying 500,000 cycles or more.
1949 Tele-tech May 31/3 The most obvious problem in designing a suitable photographic camera for video recording is that of reconciling the 30 frames per second rate of American television with the 24 frame per second rate which is standard in motion pictures.
1958 Broadcasting 5 May 116/2 The workshop is designed to increase the technical knowledge of engineers on video recording developments.
b. The process of recording moving visual images on videotape; videotaping. In later use also: the process of recording such images in a digital format.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > recording on videotape
video recording1954
videotaping1958
camming1991
1954 Christian Sci. Monitor 8 Feb. 6/6 The difficulties which RCA had to overcome to produce video recording.
1983 Nature 23 June 651/3 These..combine the recovery of [sea-]bed samples with the photography and video-recording of marine life.
1998 Pop. Sci. Mar. 33/1 The newest wrinkle in video recording is called M-DVD.
2011 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. 10/2 The nearly three-week state of emergency allows the authoritarian government to prohibit audio and video recording.
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a. U.S. A cinematographic film of a television broadcast. Cf. kinescope n. 2. Now disused.
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1948 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. 50/3 The station..will carry CBS programs from video recordings until it is joined to the rest of the network.
1950 Tele-tech Nov. 32 (heading) Video recordings improved by the use of continuous moving film.
1958 Broadcasting 17 Feb. 10/3 Kinescope service... Service will provide electronic air-checks and video recordings.
b. A recording made on videotape or (in later use) in a digital format.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording
videotape1953
videotape recording1953
video recording1956
vid1961
video1968
videogram1972
1956 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 76/4 He directed the cameraman to play back the video recording.
1978 P. Marsh et al. Rules of Disorder iv. 112 Oxford fans were shown..a video-recording which was made..during their game with Plymouth Argyle.
1999 Police Rev. 19 Nov. 13/2 Commercial companies have exploited the market niche that has opened up with protest groups making their own video recording of events.
2012 Irish Times 3 Mar. 2/3 On the video recording, there was the sound of breaking glass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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