still store

English

Noun

still store (plural still stores)

1. A device that stores and processes still images to insert them into a television broadcast stream.
   • 1992 07, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers:

     Such enormous changes have a great impact on still stores where, in many cases, systems have run with less than optimum storage.

   • 1994, “Code Name: Diamond Head”, in Mystery Science Theater 3000, Michael Nelson (actor):

     Let me read the letter. Put that up on still store, Cambot.

   • 2000 October 27, Andrew Boyd, Broadcast Journalism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 380:

     He or she literally calls the shots and cues in items to be transmitted live on still store and videotape. The still store is used to hold still pictures that have been digitized, allowing them to be cropped and edited.