A videophile is one who is concerned with achieving high-quality results in the recording and playback of movies,
TV program
A television show, TV program (), or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, and cable, or distributed digitally on streaming platf ...
s, and other means of visual media.
Criteria
Similar to
audiophile
An audiophile (from + ) is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. The audiophile seeks to achieve high sound quality in the audio reproduction of recorded music, typically in a quiet listening space in a room with ...
values,
videophile values may be applied at all stages of the chain: the initial audio-visual recording, the
video production
Video production is the process of producing video content. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard drives, SSDs, ...
process, and the playback (usually in a home setting).
Some of the aspects of video that most videophiles are concerned with include
frame rate
Frame rate, most commonly expressed in frame/s, or FPS, is typically the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (Film frame, frames) are captured or displayed. This definition applies to film and video cameras, computer animation, and moti ...
,
color system
In color science, a color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three or four values or color components. When this model is associated with a precise description ...
,
resolution,
compression artifacts
A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including Image, images, Sound recording, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the medi ...
, motion artifacts, video noise, screen size, poor upscaling, etc.
Origin
The term "videophile" was popularized by Tallahassee, Florida-based attorney and writer Jim Lowe, editor and publisher of ''
The Videophile's Newsletter'', the first issue of which appeared in the summer of 1976. This was the first publication to unite fans of the
Sony Betamax
Betamax (also known as Beta, and stylized as the Greek letter β in its logo) is a discontinued consumer analog video cassette recording format developed by Sony. It was one of the main competitors in the videotape format war against its prima ...
home video recorder (and later
VHS
VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s.
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, introduced in 1977). The newsletter later became ''The Videophile'', a nationally distributed magazine, the last issue of which was published in 1981.
See also
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Audiophile
An audiophile (from + ) is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. The audiophile seeks to achieve high sound quality in the audio reproduction of recorded music, typically in a quiet listening space in a room with ...
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Broadcast quality Broadcast quality is a term to denote the quality achieved by professional video cameras and time base correctors (TBC) used for broadcast television, usually in standard definition. As the standards for commercial television broadcasts have chang ...
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Professional audio
Professional audio, abbreviated as pro audio, refers to both an activity and a category of high-quality, studio-grade audio equipment. Typically it encompasses sound recording, sound reinforcement system setup and audio mixing, and studio mus ...
References
Film and video technology
Digital television
High-definition television
Hobbies
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