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| A.C. Neilson. 4 times a year for the main rating sweeps. |
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| Downloading and Streaming |
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Downloading-Sends it to you faster, breaks up the file into pieces and sends it out of order.
Streaming-longer to get, it's received from beginning to end. |
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| Lossy and Losless Compression |
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Lossy-Gets rid of data
Losless-Doesn't get rid of data |
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| Limitations of Microwave Signals |
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| Cannot go through objects |
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| What is a mini-link used for? |
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| To bounce the signal around objects. |
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| C-Band and Ku-band dishes |
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CBand-Large dishes, operate with lower power and frequencies. not susceptible weather. used for pre-scheduled things.
Ku-Band-Smaller dishes, high power and frequencies. Susceptible to weather. used for direct broadcast satellite(DBS) Also used for breaking news and field reports live to a station. |
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| The aspect ratio for HDTV |
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| An advantage of digital recording devises |
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| Types of broadcast video connections |
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Digital-SDI and HDSDI
Analog-Y/Color Difference |
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| Standard NTSC television scanning type |
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| Digital television scanning types |
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| Progressive and interlaced |
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Digital-MiniDV, DVCam, DVCPro25, digital 8
Analog-Beta Cam |
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| Primary colors of analog and digital television |
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| Copying analog recording and digital recordings |
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| Digital has no generation loss...analog does. |
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| Which microwave signal can be less stable in bad weather? |
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| The smallest single imaging element |
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| The channel responsible for color |
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| The channel responsible for brightness |
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| Most common imaging device in color Cameras |
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| Types of Microwave transmitters |
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| Dish, backpack transmitter w/antenna, transmitter on back of camera with antenna. |
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| converts light into electricity |
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| What does a beam splitter do |
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| Adding red, green, and blue light |
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| The producer responsible for the budget |
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| the main line coming from the cable system origination point |
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| Iris, brightness level, black level(pedestal), gamma curve, color balance. Anything that deals with picture. |
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| What does the RCU or RCP control? |
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| A professional video signal connector |
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| how to minimize the blur of fast-moving objects |
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| How to boost the signal in low-light conditions |
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| increase gain after opening iris |
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| Benefits of 3 chip cameras |
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| Trunk, Feeder, and Drop Lines |
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Trunk-Main communication
Feeder-splits up the signal
Drop-ges to each home or business. |
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| Chrominance and Luminance signals |
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Chrominance-Color
Luminance-Brightness |
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| upstream and downstream keyers |
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upstream-happens before the m/e bus.
downstream-happens just before the output. |
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| Program, preview, key and M/E buses |
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Program-sent to line out.
Preview-goes to preview monitor.
Key-Used to select keyer inputs.
M/E-Combining two different inputs. |
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| what is a rating point and how is it calculated? |
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| It's a percentage of the number of people watching the show over the number of tv's in the market area. |
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| how are ratings information gathered? |
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| diaries, phone calls, boxes/meters they put on your tv, people meter. |
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| What is a share point and how is it calculated? |
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| how many people watching the show over how many people watching tv at that time. |
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| It's the same thing as reach. The reach of that show or commercial. how many different households saw "it" at least once that week. |
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| Live multi-camera productions on location |
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| use remotes, such as trucks with control rooms inside. |
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| either a generator or connecting to on-site power. Not many places have that option though. |
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| not on tape, such as hard drive or something like that...anything but tape. |
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| what does a transponder do? |
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| transmits and receives audio and video, powers down when there's no signal coming in. |
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| Old method and new methods of still graphics. |
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Old Method-shoot a picture
New method-ESS(electronic still store) |
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| Satellite signal conversion |
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| pal to ntsc, or vice versa |
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| camera head, ccu, power supply, sync generator |
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| Television show producers |
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| line producer, executive, research, segment, talent, field, and show runner. |
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| Bonus! the order tv networks came online in the us |
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| Bonus! People that were involved with the development of the tv signal and systems. |
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| Philo Farnsworth-inventor. he was the first to demonstrate a complete working electronic system. |
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