Broadcast Quality is an ambiguous term used to denote the quality achieved by professional
CamcorderA camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit.In order to differentiate it from other devices that are capable of recording video, like cell phones and compact digital cameras, a camcorder is generally identified as a portable device primarily...
s used for
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
broadcasts, usually in standard definition. As the standards for television broadcasts have changed, the term has become more nebulous
.
Manufacturers have used it to describe both
professionalA professional is a member of a vocation founded upon specialised educational training.The word professional traditionally means a person who has obtained a degree in a professional field...
and
prosumerProsumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: the business sector sees the prosumer as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer as having greater independence from...
or "Semi-Professional" devices, with the minimum requirements typically being the inclusion of 3
CCD-Science:*Carbonate Compensation Depth, a property of oceans*Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon involving the abrupt disappearance of the worker bees in a beehive or Western honey bee colony-Technology:...
s and relatively low-
compressionVideo compression refers to reducing the quantity of data used to represent digital video images, and is a combination of spatial image compression and temporal motion compensation. Video compression is an example of the concept of source coding in Information theory...
analogAnalog recording is a technique used to store signals of audio or video information for later playback....
or
digitalA digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
recording capability with little or no
chroma subsamplingChroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma information than for luma information. It is used in many video encoding schemes — both analog and digital — and also in JPEG encoding.-Rationale:...
.
Broadcast Quality is an ambiguous term used to denote the quality achieved by professional
CamcorderA camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit.In order to differentiate it from other devices that are capable of recording video, like cell phones and compact digital cameras, a camcorder is generally identified as a portable device primarily...
s used for
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
broadcasts, usually in standard definition. As the standards for television broadcasts have changed, the term has become more nebulous
.
Manufacturers have used it to describe both
professionalA professional is a member of a vocation founded upon specialised educational training.The word professional traditionally means a person who has obtained a degree in a professional field...
and
prosumerProsumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: the business sector sees the prosumer as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer as having greater independence from...
or "Semi-Professional" devices, with the minimum requirements typically being the inclusion of 3
CCD-Science:*Carbonate Compensation Depth, a property of oceans*Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon involving the abrupt disappearance of the worker bees in a beehive or Western honey bee colony-Technology:...
s and relatively low-
compressionVideo compression refers to reducing the quantity of data used to represent digital video images, and is a combination of spatial image compression and temporal motion compensation. Video compression is an example of the concept of source coding in Information theory...
analogAnalog recording is a technique used to store signals of audio or video information for later playback....
or
digitalA digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
recording capability with little or no
chroma subsamplingChroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma information than for luma information. It is used in many video encoding schemes — both analog and digital — and also in JPEG encoding.-Rationale:...
. The advantages of 3 CCDs include better color definition in shadows, better overall low-light sensitivity, and reduced
noiseIn common use, the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In both analog and digital electronics, noise or signal noise is an unwanted random addition to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the audible noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission...
when compared to single-CCD systems. With continuing improvements in
image sensorAn image sensor is a device that converts an optical image to an electric signal. It is used mostly in digital cameras and other imaging devices. An image sensor is typically a charge-coupled device or a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor active-pixel sensor.- CCD vs CMOS :Today, most...
s,
resolutionOptical resolution describes the ability of an imaging system to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged.An imaging system may have many individual components including a lens and recording and display components...
, recording media, and
codecA codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of compressor-decompressor' or, more accurately, coder-decoder'.Historically a modem was a contraction of modulator/demodulator and converted...
s, by 2006 the term no longer carried much weight in the marketplace.
The term is also used in its literal sense in
broadcastingBroadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
jargon in judging the fitness of audio or video for broadcast.