Freeze frame television is

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in which the

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s of the video are transmitted as a sequence of still images at a rate far too slow to be perceived as continuous motion by human vision. The receiving device typically displays each frame until the next complete frame is available. For an image of specified quality, ''e.g.'',

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and color depth, freeze-frame television has a lower

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requirement than that of full-motion television. For this reason,

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, which refers to this technique as ''sequential still video'', uses it on UHF when K_u band full-motion video signals are not available.

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* Film and video technology {{tv-tech-stub

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