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VBI

Short for vertical blanking interval, the part of a television transmission signal that is blanked, or left clear, of viewable content, to allow time for the television's electron gun to move from the bottom to the top of the screen as it scans images. This blank area is now being used to broadcast closed caption and HTML -formatted information.



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