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Glossary Digital Television / Term

DCT

1. Discrete cosine transform. A widely used method of data compression of digital video pictures basically by resolving blocks of the picture (usually 8 x 8 pixels) into frequencies, amplitudes, and colors. JPEG and DV depend on DCT. 2. Also an Ampex data videotape format using discrete cosine transform.

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