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24 bit color — Computer graphics system where each pixel can have 256 levels of red, 256 levels of green, and 256 levels of blue simultaneously, allowing each pixel to be any of over 16+ million colors (256×256x256).
3/4U — Aging industrial videocassette format. Uses 3/4-inch tape in cassettes.
3/4U-SP — Superior performance version of 3/4U, totally compatible with it.
3-D modeling — Electronic graphics technique or software that allows one to designate points in three dimensional space, connect those points, cover the resulting wireframe with a selected material, then move or rotate the object, showing it from various angles. Objects can be combined and allowed to reflect or cast shadows upon each other and/or their backgrounds.
3-to-1 rule — Position mikes at least 3 times farther from each other than they are from the people speaking into them.
8 bit color — A picture’s colors are selected from a palette of 256 colors in a color lookup table. Only 256 colors are available in a single picture.
8mm — Eight millimeter. Nearly 1/4-inch wide tape used in popular lightweight home camcorders. This is also the width of home movie film which is also called 8mm.
8-pin — Rectangular plug with eight pins and a cable that goes with it used to carry audio, video, and other signals between a monitor/receiver and a videocassette recorder.
