A videophile (literally, "one who loves sight") is one who is concerned with achieving high-quality results in the recording and playback of movies,

TV program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...

s, etc.

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audiophile An audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. An audiophile seeks to reproduce the sound of a piece of recorded music or a live musical performance, typically inside closed headphones, In-ear monitors, open ...

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 for video. 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 dri ...

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 (expressed in or FPS) is the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed. The term applies equally to film and video cameras, computer graphics, and motion capture systems. Frame rate may also be ca ...

color system 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 of how the compon ...

resolution Resolution(s) may refer to: Common meanings * Resolution (debate), the statement which is debated in policy debate * Resolution (law), a written motion adopted by a deliberative body * New Year's resolution, a commitment that an individual mak ...

compression artifacts A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including images, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the media's data so that it beco ...

, motion artifacts, video noise, screen size, etc.

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The term "videophile" was popularised, if not coined, 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, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video, commonly known as a video cassette recorder. It was developed by Sony and was released in Japan on May 10, 1975, f ...

home video recorder (and later VHS, introduced in 1977). The newsletter later became ''The Videophile'', a nationally distributed magazine, the last issue of which was published in 1981.{{cite book, title=From Betamax to Blockbuster: Mediation in the Consumption Junction, author=Greenberg, J.M., date=2004, publisher=Cornell University, Aug., isbn=9780496879663, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjQbAQAAIAAJ, access-date=2018-07-19

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Film and video technology Digital television High-definition television Hobbies

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