Byte - A group of eight (8) bits, enough to represent a character.

CD - Compact disc of recorded audio.

Cyclorama - Use of a special curtain and colored lights to create a backdrop that provides the impression of a horizon, mood, or time changes.

Digital Betacam - The most state-of-the art format for shooting and editing broadcast video. CSUMB is the only entity on the Central Coast currently using this technology.

Digitally compressed - Once a picture is painted on the TV screen, anything not moving becomes redundant information. Digital compression uses high speed sampling techniques to identify and remove redundant information. As a result, twelve (12) digital channels can now fit into the same bandwidth occupied by one (1) analog channel.

DVD - Digital video disc; records video and audio for near-broadcast quality playback of video material.

Gigabyte - One billion bytes.

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language; the language used to write pages for the World Wide Web.

Online - On the network; typically refers to being on the Internet.

RAM - Random access memory; provides the capacity required to store and run the operating system plus a number of software applications on your workstation.

Satellite downlink - Equipment required to receive video programming from a broadcast satellite.

Uncompressed analog - A standard TV channel

Web-based - Information and/or an application made available via the World Wide Web.

Web browser - A software program that requests, interprets, and presents World Wide Web (WWW) documents. Frequently used browsers include Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Lynx, and Mosaic.