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The Display Data Channel or DDC is a collection of digital communication protocols between a computer display and a graphics adapter... |
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A Device Driver Interface or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device... |
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A term used to describe a colour gamut comprising a billion or more colours... |
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Deinterlacing is the process of converting interlaced video, such as common analog television signals or 1080i format HDTV signals, into a non-interlaced form (progressive)... |
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Differential gain is the error in the amplitude of the colour signal due to a change in luminance (brightness) level... |
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Differential phase is the error in the phase of the colour signal due to a change in luminance (brightness) level... |
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A digital display interface standard introduced by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA)... |
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A distribution amplifier is a device that accepts a single input signal and provides this same signal to multiple isolated outputs... |
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Digital Light Processing® is a proprietary Texas Instruments technology that uses micro-mirrors on a chip to switch light for video projection, including digital televisions... |
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Dolby Surround was the earliest consumer version of Dolby's multi channel analog film sound decoding format Dolby Stereo, introduced to the public in 1982... |
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A family of multi-channel audio codecs/audio compression technologies from Dolby Laboratories, based on AC-3 technology... |
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An advanced lossless multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories which is intended primarily for high-definition home-entertainment equipment such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD... |
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Dolby TrueHD is an advanced lossless multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories which is intended primarily for high-definition home-entertainment equipment such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD... |
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Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
DSD over PCM
A system of digitally recreating audible signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD)... |
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DTS (Digital Theater Systems) is a company specialising in multichannel digital surround sound formats used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications... |
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The second of two DTS High Definition audio formats... |
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Digital television (DTV) is the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by discrete (digital) signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV... |
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DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media format... |
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A DRM (Digital Rights Management) technique designed to allow motion picture studios to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region... |
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Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a is a video interface standard designed to provide very high visual quality on digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors... |
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The Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) is a data-structure, provided by a display monitor, to describe its capabilities to a graphics card connected to it... |
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Enhanced Definition Television, also known as Extended Definition Television... |
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The IBM PC computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of colour and space resolution... |
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Equalization, or EQ for short, means boosting or reducing (attenuating) the levels of different frequencies in a signal... |
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Extended Video Graphics Array (or EVGA) is a standard created by VESA in 1991 denoting a non-interlaced resolution of 1024x768 at a maximum of 70Hz refresh rate... |
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Federal Communications Commission... |
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Refers to the medium and the technology associated with the transmission of information as light pulses along a glass or plastic wire or fiber... |
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Display technologies such as LCD, Plasma and DLP that use an non-fluctuating matrix of pixels with a set number of pixels in each row and column... |
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Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is an audio codec audio data compression... |
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Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time... |
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When a low frequency signal modulates (changes) the frequency of an RF signal of a much higher frequency (causing it to move around the basic carrier frequency) - the process is called frequency modulation or FM... |
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A technique where the video output of one source is used to synchronise other video sources together... |
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High Definition (HD) Generally refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or 1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p)... |
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Indicates the capability of a television to display High Definition video content... |
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High-definition DVD is a now defunct high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video... |
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High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of digital copy protection to prevent the copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across connections (mainly DVI and HDMI)... |
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HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data, and represents a digital alternative to consumer analog standards... |
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<b>Type A (HDMI® Connector):</b> The most common and well recognised HDMI connector variant... |
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High Definition TV... |
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HDV is a format for recording of high-definition video on DV cassette tape... |
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HSXGA, an abbreviation for Hex[adecatuple] Super Extended Graphics Array, is a display standard that can support a resolution of roughly 5120×4096 pixels with a 5:4 aspect ratio... |
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Hue determines the weakness or intensity of a colour... |
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HUXGA, an abbreviation for Hex[adecatuple] Ultra Extended Graphics Array, is a display standard that can support a resolution of roughly 6400×4800 pixels with a 4:3 aspect ratio... |
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HXGA an abbreviation for Hex[adecatuple] Extended Graphics Array is a display standard that can support a resolution of 4096×3072 pixels (or 3200 pixels) with a 4:3 aspect ratio... |
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IEEE-1394 is a high speed serial digital interfacing standard used to transfer digital video signals from one piece of equipment to another... |
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An infrared touchscreen uses an array of X-Y infrared LED and photodetector pairs around the edges of the screen to detect a disruption in the pattern of LED beams... |
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Interlacing is a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal without consuming extra bandwidth... |
