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Contents 1 Example of Video 2 'Most Video Taped Day 3 VTR 4 VGA 5 Wikipedia video policy 6 360 degree videos 7 Video=Videocassette 8 VHS "bit rate" 9 PAL, SECAM and NTSC 10 Film vs. video 11 Video Recording + Screencast 12 When was video invented? 13 Bob Kiger claims

[edit] Example of Video

it seems that the wiki for video would contain an example of a video, or even a few consecutive photos set in motion, like a flip-book. wikipedia abounds with pictures, yet the wiki for "video" contains no videos? YOUareTIGERBAIT (talk) 19:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 'Most Video Taped Day

This one line mentions the September 11, 2001 was the most videotaped day in history needs some work...does anybody know why it was so? All I can think of happening that day was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_terrorist_attacks But I'm not sure if the attacks could be responsible for increased video capture, and at least not enough to cause a record. In summary, elaborate. I'm curious and incapable of research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.228.3.53 (talk) 00:28, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] VTR

Meeds something about the 1" vtr format as well...name, anyone???

[edit] VGA

No mentions of VGA?

[edit] Wikipedia video policy

Halló! I am new at Wikipedia. Question: Are there some similar topics for video as for image (Wikipedia:Images Wikipedia:List_of_images ...)? Gangleri 14:04, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

Check out the page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Video_policy --Gary D 20:59, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 360 degree videos

Is there any information around about 360 degree videos? There are already digital camera's that do this, but would be interested to know if such technology exists for video.

They had a "ride" at disneyland that was a 360 degree video. If you didn't already see it... too late... they got rid of it for good reason.

[edit] Video=Videocassette

The article currently says that in the UK the term video is used to refer to a videocassette. This suggests that it is limited to the UK, but I've heard it used that way as well in Southern California. Is there in fact any English-speaking area where the words video and videocassette are not interchangeable? Theshibboleth 22:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VHS "bit rate"

This line needs correcting / removing / explaining: "For example, VHS, with a bit rate of about 1 Mbit/s" VHS of course is an analogue format (and a crap one at that but there we go), so of course it has no bit rate associated with it. Anyone feel like tidying this up? colin99.

That rate probably refers to the amount of digital information in VHS-to-NTSC, NTSC-to-VHS, VHS-to-PAL, or PAL-to-VHS conversion, but I'll try to verify that. The Rod 15:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PAL, SECAM and NTSC

The line:

"PAL (Europe) and SECAM (France) standards specify 25 fps, while NTSC (North America)"

is imprecise changed it to what it says for formats Old Analog section although thats pretty imprecise as well

Johnny 0 04:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Film vs. video

The intro and second paragraph say that film is a kind of video, but only non-film formats are treated in the rest of the article. To me (and many others, a quick google reveals), video is explicitly not film. The crux of the definition of video in the first sentence of this article is moving-picture technology for tv or computer monitors. Am I missing something? Is there any reason to define celluloid film as video? ntennis 01:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

What other word would you use to include all moving images, both on small monitors and on the big screen ? As opposed to, say, "sounds".

--65.70.89.241 19:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

We used to say "motion pictures" or "moving pictures" and you now tend to hear simply "film". But ntennis is definitely correct: the visual portion of film isn't "video"; video is an electronic representation of an image.

Atlant 20:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Video Recording + Screencast

Added a Screencast ref to 'See also'. Also I'm concerned there is limited info on 'Video Recording' perhaps with links to decent HOWTOs. There isn't a 'Video Recording' section in the parent page Video, to which 'Video Recording' is redirected. Should there be a separate page (instead of redir) or section for the large topic of 'Video Recording'? Awildman 22:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] When was video invented?

i hate this thing now get off my computer

[edit] Bob Kiger claims

1. That Latin "video" was more than merely "seeing" but "apprehending" "seeing the big picture" "knowing". A discourse on this is located at http://videographyblog.com/

2. Video in it's now common usage (electronic or digital pictures) was dug up by TV pioneers, in the early 20th Century, to describe the picture, as opposed to the sound" portion of their new TV invention. In their near panic rush to become first into TV they set up "new slang". Sound was "audio" from the Latin "audire" (already quite entrenched in radio jargon) and picture became "video" from the Latin "videre".

3. Not much happened with "video" in common languages (world wide) between 1930-1946 because the Depression and World War II intervened, but after the war, TV technology exploded with unbelievable impact around the world. During this "cold war" period a new breed of nerd emerged in classrooms . . . the "audio-video" guy, who set up the slide projectors and movie projectors. From 1946 until the late 1960s video remained pretty much the purview of broadcast engineers and a few early video enthusiasts who braved great expense and frustration to pioneer in "video making".

4. By the late 1960s Norelco introduced the first "portable" broadcast video camera [please correct me if there is an earlier portable] the PCP-90. It caused an immediate sensation in the field of independent broadcasting and companies like "Compact Video" "Trans-American Video" "Editel" began building small Mobile Units to house the camera and the Ampex 3000 recorders that usually were mated to it. The smallest of these mobile units was on a golf cart, and their was a jeep, and larger units.

5. In 1971 I was commissioned by the editor of American Cinematographer, the official journal of "The American Society of Cinematographers" [ASC] to research and write a report on these emerging electronic cameras and recording technologies. At the time of that commission I was browsing through the museum of the ASC and noticed a picture of the original Thomas Edison "Vitagraph" company. At that moment I said to myself "if Edison could concoct "vitagraph" than why shouldn't my research paper be called "videography" and coined that word as the descriptive title for the OCT 1972 report entitled "Videography. What Does It All Mean?"

6. Within months of the release of my videography article broadcasters and video makers around the world adopted "videography". It was the development of "videography" that made the earlier video ubiquitous and [I might add] widely misunderstood.

7 My research into the roots of "video" BEGAN with the publication of the videography article. By 1988 I published a treatise on the subject and distributed it to dictionaries and academics around the world. See: http://videographyblog.com/background/Websters%20%26%20Oxford%20Letters.pdf

8. Websters and Oxford seem to have forgotten their commitment to lexicography because 20 years have passed and we are still waiting for proper etymology of "video" and "videography".

9. The failure to research the roots of "video" and naively accept it into pop vernacular has been a primary influence to the "dumbing down" of each and every one of us in "the age of videography" [Miller Freeman Publishers - 1996]

10. Nobody loses anything by getting it right. We lose our connection the the primal root "vid" when we get it wrong. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vid-root

Thanks for your time. Bobkiger 20:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)Bob Kiger - Videography Lab Bobkiger 20:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)