The teletext service of the BBC. Its name is a corruption of the phrase “see facts.” Ceefax transmits some 100 pages of information such as news, weather, and entertainment options, that can be displayed on the TV. The information can be called up at any time by the viewer using a keypad
Microwave TV transmission system in 28-GHz band to send voice and video over the airwaves. The cellular vision system, financed by the Suite 12 Group (Freehold, NJ), was invented by Bernard Bossard. An alternative to CATV, it makes useof a band that was once considered to be too high a frequency for effective TV transmission. [...]
4,250.000 kHz.
4,406.000 kHz.
An instruction to place an image in the middle of an area, such as a TV screen.
Compact Disc Read Only Memory eXtended Architecture. Microsoft’s extensions to CD-ROM that allow audio to be interleaved with data. Though it is not a video specification, limited video can be included on disc.
Abbreviation for automatic level control or automatic light control.
Color Difference Signal
1. The first computer to incorporate a built-in CD-ROM drive, designed and sold by Commodore 2. Canadian Digital Television Association
Compact video disc. A format for putting 5 minutes of video on a 3-inch disc. This format has come and gone