VIDEO TECH SPECS—THE NECESSARY EVILS

Intro: My Low Definition of High-Definition Video

In as much as I like to focus on content and story and stay out for the bottomless rabbit-hole of confusion that is the technical specs and terminology of video, it is necessary to give some basic explanations of certain video concepts and definitions in order to better understand certain camera and TV settings and specs.

Pixels

Pixels are all the little red, green, and blue microdots that make up the image on a TV or monitor screen. The more pixels there are, the sharper and clearer the picture will be, the better the quality of the image.

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