windowing

[win-doh-ing]

noun

Computers.

1. simultaneous display of different portions of one or more files on a screen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of windowing¹

window + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

“This kind of strategic windowing actually strengthens the show’s life cycle,” Blackwell explains.

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“To think that it’s just the windowing issue, I think we, as an industry, need to be innovative and flexible to meet the audience where they are,” he said.

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At a moment when streaming has elevated TV in the cultural conversation and brought countless entertainment options to consumers’ fingertips, movies have faced a much cloudier picture — and the timing of their move from theaters to home video platforms, known as “windowing,” has never been more in flux.

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At CinemaCon in April, Chief Executive David Zaslav said, “We believe in full windowing of the motion pictures. We do not want to do direct-to-streaming movies.”

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“In a world where windowing has just kind of exploded, we’re really tailoring every release to the movie, to the audience and to where consumers are watching movies,” said Scott Shooman, president of IFC Films.

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