1937 Electronics Aug. 22/1 A video amplifier is one that is responsive to picture signals, and therefore, is an extremely good audio as well as a very wide band radio frequency amplifier.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers'Handbk. xx. 55Finally the video amplifier raises the signal to from 50 to 100 V to drive the picture tube.
1972 Harper's Mag. June 92Few of these programs are going to win awards as video art.
Ibid. 90Russ Connor is now in charge of granting money through the New York State Council to independent video artists.
1975 N.Y. Times 14 Apr. 33Mr. Gillette..is one of a growing breed of video artists, for whom the TV screen has become an esthetic medium... They produce video⁓tapes that take ingenious advantage of the technology.
1975 New Yorker 5 May 44/1 The video-art movement, which has been in high gear for more than three years now, can have come as a surprise to practically no one.
1978 Chicago June 14/4 Channel 11 producer Tom Weinburg a video artist and part-owner of the White Sox. [ is]
1978 Tucson Mag. Dec. 28/1Videocameras for home productions range from $300 to $1500.
1983 New Scientist 24 Mar. 793/1 It is neither easy nor ethical to perch with notebook or video camera over spontaneous scenes of human mating or aggression.
1970 Times 26 Sept. 12/1 The video-cassette comprises a pre-recorded, pre-packaged programme of pictures and sound, designed to be ‘played’ on a television set with a converter.
1976 Broadcast 23 Aug. 8/1 The videocassette editor..is a small desk-top box..controlling two Sony video-cassette recorders.
1978 Lancashire Life Nov. 112/1 ( Advt. ),The Philips N1700 uses a 2½ hour video cassette no larger than the average paperback, and like an audio cassette the video cassette recordings can be played back whenever you like and as often as you like.
1982 M. Babson Death beside Seaside xv. 132That's a video cassette recorder! Where did he get that? We couldn't afford that.
1977 Communications: Technol. for Better Tomorrow (Proc. 13thAnn. Internat. Conf. Communications) III. 75/1An experimental videoconference link has been installed in France.
1983 Times 25 June 8/5 Whether a face-to-face meeting is in any sense ‘better’ than a videoconference is a different question.
1977 Communications: Technol. for Better Tomorrow (Proc. 13thAnn. Internat. Conf. Communications) III. 75/1Characteristics concerning typical pictures in video⁓conferencing.
1983 New Scientist 7 Apr. 7/3 British Telecom has been running video conferencing studios for the past 12 years.
1967 Ibid. 2 Feb. 285/3We shall soon have on the market the video-disc, about the size of a gramophone record and costing about 22 shillings.
1975 Broadcast 28 July 11/2 Consider the mind-boggling experience of a visit to your local bookstore to purchase a videodisc with perhaps 150 books on it—or maybe 54,000 slides of paintings.
1982 New Scientist 21 Oct. 150/1 Video discs are the video equivalent of the long-playing record.
1982 Jrnl. R.Soc. Arts Nov. 781/1The floppy disc can hold the equivalent of 40 pages of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, but the video disc the whole of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
1976 New Yorker 1 Mar. 23/2 A V.D.T.; or Video Display Terminal, is a machine that combines a television screen with a typewriter keyboard and is connected to ‘a gigantic network of computers’.
1983 Boston Globe 12 July 3/5 Video display terminals, or VDTs, have become commonplace in many offices.
1968 Video display unit . [ see VDUs.v. V 5 b]
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 114/3 New video display units provide instantaneous information to answer inquiries from customers concerning the location of cars.
1983 Engin. & MiningJrnl. May 99/1Engineers have at their disposal newly developed hardware and soft⁓ware, with modern distributed control systems using computer interface and video display units.
1944 R. E. Lee Television ix. 182Even with the financial savings of videofilm, television is the most expensive way of selling things that man has ever concocted.
1955 Amer. Cinematographer XXXVI. 365/1Within a matter of minutes, this video film recording can be quick-processed and screened.
1978 Washington Post 29 Mar. d–2/5 The flight scheduled to carry the video film of Sunday's game ‘did not take off’ Monday night.
1983 Daily Tel. 10 June 2/3Management brought in video films which were shown in updated form every few months to enable employees to know how the company was functioning.
1937 Electronics Aug. 23/2 There are several ways of designing an amplifier to give satisfactory response for video frequencies.
1956 Amos & Birkinshaw TelevisionEngin. II. i. 28The video-frequency signal generated by scanning such a scene has a uniform level which is interrupted by the sync signals.
1982 Electronics 6 Oct. 63 In development..is a..generator for cathode-ray-tube applications offering an 80-MHz video frequency.
1973 Business Week 10 Nov. 212/1 The astonishing ability of the video game to lure quarters from the public and the electronic techniques used in its design are forcing major changes on the coin-operated game business.
1983 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Jan. 1/2Coleco's 1982 earnings ‘appear to be well in excess of five times 1981 levels of $7.7 million,’ the third-largest maker of video games said.
1961 Aeroplane CI. 74/2 All displays are capable of accepting video map information.
1982 Radar-82 (IEE Conf. No. 216) 307/1Producing a video map very much more accurate than the radar data is unnecessarily costly.
1954 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Mar. (B ed. ) 20/4Another of the new developments, ‘video mapping’, electronically reproduces an area map on the radar scope—showing terrain hazards, airport runways and radio flight paths.
1962 Flight Internat. LXXXI. 283/2The range of synthetic displays to be added to the raw radar..will include video mapping.
1983 Listener 10 Feb. 4/1 The same children are sometimes known to see video ‘nasties’ or horror films screened later on.
1984 Ibid. 14 June 3/2Unless one has seen a video nasty..it is difficult to imagine the depths of degradation to which certain producers are willing to sink.
1955 C. L. Moore in ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF 129He..called Maltzer's apartment by videophone.
Ibid. 131Maltzer videophoned him.
1971 New Scientist 1 July 14/2 The West Germans have recently begun operating a 240-mile experimental videophone link.
1976 TV Guide ( U.S. ) 1 May,To reach other videophone outlets, the user merely dials the telephone.
1980 Times 2 Aug. 2/4 Audio and video piracy..usually involve the copying of a legitimate product such as video⁓taped film.
1983 Daily Tel. 20 June 17/2Customs and Excise is claiming the right to see documents seized under a court order by a firm of London solicitors acting for the British Videogram Association in a video piracy case.
1982 Ibid. 17 Nov. 2/3A video pirate was fined {pstlg}500 yesterday by magistrates in Chepstow, Gwent, in a test case which could start a new clampdown on the illegal copies.
1983 New Scientist 3 Mar. 569/1 The deal is a blow to the video-pirates, who have cashed in by selling illegal copies.
1970 Sci. Amer. Dec. 37/1 (Advt. ),The little cartridge simply drops into the videoplayer you will have attached to your set.
1972 Listener 8 June 775/3, I would guess that in about fifteen years most people would have a video-player of one sort or another in their homes.
1983 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. 48/4The man..slipped a cassette into his video player... A comedian..popped into view on the television screen.
1979 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 15/5The programme claimed that a ‘video⁓porn’ cassette of Linda Lovelace's ‘Deep Throat’..was made in America with Mafia money.
1982 Punch 13 Jan. 83/2 Before videoporn and clockwork dildo moved inexorably in.
1937 J. C. Wilson TelevisionEngin. ix. 346Fig. 210..shows a triode valve having its grid biased approximately at zero volts, so that on receipt of positive video signals it runs into grid current and the video-signal voltage is dropped across the series grid resistance.
1937 . [ see fade v.1 9 b]
1957 Amos & Birkinshaw TelevisionEngin. I. i. 17The composite signal obtained by combining a picture with a synchronising signal is known as a video signal.
1976 A. Davis Television ii. 28The main problem was the high speed at which the tape needed to run in order to accommodate the wider range of frequencies of video signals compared with audio signals.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxii. 233The possibility of shopping by two-way TV, or video-telephone.
1978 Jrnl. R.Soc. Arts CXXVI. 270/2The interview will remain the mainstay of any selection procedure: even if it is transferred to the video telephone.
1970 Computer Management Nov. 52/2 The key point in all video terminal applications, present or future, is the ease of handling and understanding information presented in a familiar form.
1983 N.Y. Times 28 Jan. 18/2I.R.S. operators will still do the talking, but the computers will catalogue and display on video terminals all the taxpayers' facts, figures and prior promises.
1935 . [ see audio- II]
1937 RCA Rev. July 17Another important consideration has to do with the difficulty of feeding and switching video circuits.
1944 Jrnl. TelevisionSoc. IV. 69/2Trap circuits are commonly used..to keep the sound carrier out of the video channel.
1945 J. Barzun Teacher inAmer. xix. 280The copywriter..must be the same who was impelled to call television ‘the video art’.
1949 Proc. IRE XXXVII. 289/2Video Techniques. Notable progress was made in the comparatively new field of television recording on film.
1951 Koestler Age of Longing 194An American video commentator.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 157A hippopotamus of a television-radio-and-phonograph cabinet with the blind monstrous snout of the video tube.
1967 Boston Herald 1 Apr. 1/1 News commentator Chet Huntley claimed Friday he had the support of his video partner, David Brinkley, and all but three of 40 NBC newscasters in his bid.
1979 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 12/6Such moments..were rare in Alick Rowe's Two People (ITV)... Video-drama remains uncertain about the love story.
1955 , etc. . [ see video film, etc. above]
1973 Art Internat. Mar. 42/2The video sculpture De La, which utilizes the machine constructed for shooting La Région Centrale, carries on a discourse on perception at the same time that it exists as a fascinating mechanical object.
1976 Broadcast Dec. 20/1 In a video world he has still a film-stock contribution to make to the overall impression of the whole.
1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) iv. 14/2He said he'd had amazing results just acting out his anger with his patients. He was also big on video feedback.., role-playing..and Japanese hot tubs.
1979 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 15/5Home video equipment is giving the Mafia a foothold in Britain, with illegal distribution of pornography and pirated films... ‘Videocrime’ is growing so fast that it will be the Crime of the '80s.
1980 Times 25 Jan. (Audio Visual Rep. ) p. ii/5Video programmes are being used by the National Bus Company for training drivers.
1982 Listener 23 & 30 Dec. 10/3 If you don't like what broadcast television offers, then you can supplement the diet from the video shop.
1984 What Video? Aug. 6/2 The VR-3995 has four video heads for noise-free still frame and slow motion.
[ 1980Christian Science Monitor 30 May b12/1 It took outer space to make video arcade games a smash success. In the mid-'70s a Japanese-made game named Space Invaders became as popular in its homeland as rice and Toyotas. ]
1982 Amer. Banker 13 May 3/4Future bankers can be found today in the thousands of *video arcades across the country.
1984 N. Mailer Tough Guys don't Dance iii. 63His eye glittered as if I had made a direct hit in a video arcade.
1975 Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 1 Sept. 7/2 *Video dating helps because it's like window shopping—you can look but you don't have to buy.
1981 Times 18 Dec. (Preview section) p. xi/2 A video-dating agency where people present themselves on tape.
1997 D. Boyle Subject to Change xviii. 177It turned out he was living in Los Angeles and running a video dating service.
1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 July c25/1Recent weeks have featured..Juan Downery's intriguing ‘The Laughing Alligator’, a *video diary of eight months spent with an Indian tribe in the Amazon rain forests.
2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed. ) 6 Aug.They will tour Scottish schools, initiating partnerships with Scots children through internet links and video diaries.
1982 PR Newswire (Nexis) 13 Apr. Music Television ‘*video jock’ Nina Blackwood.
2001 B. Fong-Torres Hits just keep on Coming xvii. 222After rejecting a position as a video jock..in New York.., Dees joined KIIS-FM.
1950 Los Angeles Times 14 June 26 (advt.) See and hear top name entertainers..with *video jockey Bill Leyden..channel 11.
1981 N.Y. Times 19 June d15/4These producers, by the way, will be supplying the programming free—far-out videotapes of the groups in action that they make for record promotion—just as they supply records to disk jockeys. Enter the video jockey. [ record]
1997 Independent (Nexis) 22 Nov. 52 Top venues have traditionally been quick to use technology. Many employ Video Jockeys (VJs) to control the visual aesthetics on the dancefloors, in addition to traditional psychedelic imagery.
2002 Business Week 18 Feb. 81/1 MTV's video jockeys..deliver wall-to-wall Hindi film music, German hard rock, Mandopop, and Mexican hip hop to local viewers.
1984 Computers & Electronics Nov. 96/2 Chorus Data systems is working on a telecommunications product tentatively being referred to as *Video Mail. Suppose someone in an office in San Francisco wants to send a sketch, a set of plans or a photograph to someone in an office in Philadelphia . [ etc.]
1990 Financial Times (Electronic ed. ) 19 Apr. p. xi,The screen gives Ben the business news headlines, the weather forecast and tells him he has video mail and a message from his Tokyo office waiting.
1998 Cambr. Work-group ComputingRep. (Electroniced. ) 4 MayFusion lets users listen to a stereo radio broadcast, watch their favourite TV news program, send videomail, conduct videoconferences . [ etc.]
1979 U.S. News & WorldRep. (Nexis) 15 Oct. 66/3The nation's telephone network will become even more sophisticated... Such systems will carry voice, data and *video messages.
1992 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 23 July The highlight of the outdoor ceremony..was the viewing of a video message from astronaut Hoffman.
2004 Sun (Nexis) 25 Feb. Video Message. A recorded video clip that is sent from one video mobile to another. Great for reliving practical jokes, first steps, fun moments.
1982 Forbes (Nexis) 15 Feb. 37/1 Wang executives speak glowingly of work stations with electronic calendars, information filing and retrieval systems, instant mail, even audio and *video messaging devices.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Dec. 18 Teleconferencing and voice and video messaging have become business staples.
2003 T3 Mar. 85/2 Video messaging is next-gen picture messaging, where you record a short clip of yourself and then send it to a mate.
video-
word-forming element; see video, adj..
video-
Prefix
- Forms terms relating to moving images, and especially to television
Derived terms
English words prefixed with video-