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Bluescreen vs Greenscreen - What's the difference?

bluescreen | greenscreen |

As nouns the difference between bluescreen and greenscreen

is that bluescreen is while greenscreen is (film) the alternate version of bluescreen, having the background green instead of blue.

As a verb bluescreen

is (computing) to experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.

bluescreen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (computing) To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
    • His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.

    Noun

    (head)

    • greenscreen

    English

    Alternative forms

    * green screen

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (film) The alternate version of bluescreen, having the background green instead of blue.
  • The display of an or similar monochrome monitor.

    • Synonyms

    * (film) bluescreen, blue screen, chromakey, chroma-key, chroma key

    See also

    * (wikipedia "greenscreen")