picture black
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
picture black (countable and uncountable, plural picture blacks)
- (television) The darkest black that can be produced in a television image.
- 1966, Rodger J. Ross, Television Film Engineering, page 331:
- At the same time the picture blacks may be reproduced at levels as high as 20 or 30 IRE units.