What is "instant replay"

n. (context sports television English) A video recording of an action that can be replayed immediately after being recorded.

Instant replay is a video reproduction of something that recently occurred which was both shot and broadcast live. The video, having already been shown live, is replayed in order for viewers to see again and analyze what had just taken place. Some sports allow officiating calls to be overturned after the review of a play. Instant replay is most commonly used in sports, but is also used in other fields of live TV. While the first near-instant replay system was developed and used in Canada, the first instant replay was developed and deployed in the United States.

Instant replay is the process of replaying previously occurred events through the use of video technology.

Instant replay may also refer to:

• Instant replay in American football
• Instant Replay (Dan Hartman album), 1978
• Instant Replay (magazine-format video)
• Instant Replay (The Monkees album), 1969
• Instant Replay (Pizzicato Five album), 1993
• "Instant Replay" (song), a 1978 song by Dan Hartman
• Instant Replay, a 1968 book written by professional American football player Jerry Kramer
• Instant Replay, a weekly sports highlight program on WGN-TV

Instant Replay is the seventh studio album by The Monkees. Issued six months after the cancellation of the group's NBC television series, it is also the first album released after Peter Tork left the group and the only album of the original nine studio albums that does not include any songs featured in the TV show from the original NBC run nor the CBS/ ABC reruns.

"Instant Replay" is a song by Dan Hartman from the album of the same name. All the tracks on Hartman's album topped the US Dance Chart for five weeks. It reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, while topping out on the R&B chart at number 44. In the UK, the song peaked at number 8. The video for the song features Dan alongside future Kiss lead guitarist Vinnie Vincent, Hilly Michaels from the band Sparks on drums, and Hall & Oates veteran guitarist and former Saturday Night Live band leader G.E. Smith on bass.

It was successfully remade in 1990 by the UK pop duo, Yell!, where it reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart.

A soundbite from the song is used in some arcade machines.

Instant Replay is a 1993 Pizzicato Five live album.

Instant Replay is the third full-length album from singer-songwriter Dan Hartman. Released in 1978, where all the album tracks reached number 1 on the American dance chart. The title track/first single peaked at number 29 on the Hot 100 in the U.S. & number 8 in the U.K.. The follow-up single, "This Is It", was only a minor Hot 100 hit, reaching number 91 in 1979, while rising to number 18 in the U.K.

Instant Replay was the first magazine-format, direct-to-video program for home-video consumers. Established by Miami, Florida, entrepreneur Chuck Azar in 1977, and released on VHS and Beta-format videocassettes through 1982, it contained segments devoted to live music performances, reports from technology and electronics conventions, interviews, bloopers and other off-air content from network- and cable-television satellite feeds, and home-video hobbyists' contributions, among other content. It was predated by a direct-to-video trade magazine, Videofashion, sold to fashion-industry professionals on industrial U-Matic videocassettes.