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  2. Mass media in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are several types of mass media in the United States: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and web sites. The U.S. also has a strong music industry. New York City, Manhattan in particular, and to a lesser extent Los Angeles, are considered the epicenters of U.S. media. Many media entities are controlled by large for-profit ...

  3. Multimedia library - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia library. A multimedia library is a public institution functioning as a library, containing not only paper and electronic books, newspapers and magazines, but also multimedia materials like videos (movies, documentaries) and sound recordings (music, audio books). [1] A multimedia library is distinct from a hybrid library, which ...

  4. Radio - Wikipedia

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    Different types of information signals carried by radio have different data rates. For example, a television (video) signal has a greater data rate than an audio signal. The radio spectrum, the total range of radio frequencies that can be used for communication in a given area, is a limited resource.

  5. Streaming media - Wikipedia

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    Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network. Media is transferred in a "stream" of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; [1] this contrasts with file downloading , a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before ...

  6. Media filter - Wikipedia

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    A media filter is a type of filter that uses a bed of sand, peat, shredded tires, foam, crushed glass, geo-textile fabric, anthracite, crushed granite or other material to filter water for drinking, swimming pools, aquaculture, irrigation, stormwater management, oil and gas operations, and other applications. Each layer of media is designed to ...

  7. Media player software - Wikipedia

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    Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players, such as play ( ), pause ( ), fastforward (⏩️), rewind (⏪), and stop ( ) buttons.

  8. Multimedia database - Wikipedia

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    A Multimedia database ( MMDB) is a collection of related for multimedia data. [1] The multimedia data include one or more primary media data types such as text, images, graphic objects (including drawings, sketches and illustrations) animation sequences, audio and video . A Multimedia Database Management System ( MMDBMS) is a framework that ...

  9. Video file format - Wikipedia

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    Video file format. A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system. Video is almost always stored using lossy compression to reduce the file size. A video file normally consists of a container (e.g. in the Matroska format) containing visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g ...