Avideophile is one who is concerned with achieving high-quality results in the recording and playback of movies,TV programs, and other means of visual media.[1]
Similar toaudiophile values,[2] videophile values may be applied at all stages of the chain: the initial audio-visual recording, thevideo production process, and the playback (usually in a home setting).Some of the aspects of video that most videophiles are concerned with includeframe rate,color system,resolution,compression artifacts, motion artifacts, video noise, screen size, poor upscaling, etc.
The term "videophile" was popularized by Tallahassee, Florida-based attorney and writer Jim Lowe, editor and publisher ofThe Videophile's Newsletter, the first issue of which appeared in the summer of 1976. This was the first publication to unite fans of theSony Betamax home video recorder (and laterVHS, introduced in 1977). The newsletter later becameThe Videophile, a nationally distributed magazine, the last issue of which was published in 1981.[3]
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