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DDC

The Display Data Channel or DDC is a collection of digital communication protocols between a computer display and a graphics adapter...

DDI

A Device Driver Interface or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device...

Deep Colour

A term used to describe a colour gamut comprising a billion or more colours...

Deinterlacing

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)...

Differential Gain

Differential gain is the error in the amplitude of the colour signal due to a change in luminance (brightness) level...

Differential Phase

Differential phase is the error in the phase of the colour signal due to a change in luminance (brightness) level...

Display Port

A digital display interface standard introduced by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA)...

Distribution Amplifier

A distribution amplifier is a device that accepts a single input signal and provides this same signal to multiple isolated outputs...

DLP

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...

Dolby (Surround)

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...

Dolby Digital

A family of multi-channel audio codecs/audio compression technologies from Dolby Laboratories, based on AC-3 technology...

Dolby True HD

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...

Dolby TrueHD

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...

DoP

Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
DSD over PCM

A system of digitally recreating audible signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD)...

DTS

DTS (Digital Theater Systems) is a company specialising in multichannel digital surround sound formats used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications...

DTS-HD Master Audio

The second of two DTS High Definition audio formats...

DTV

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...

DVD

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media format...

DVD Region Code

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...

DVI

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...

EDID

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...

EDTV

Enhanced Definition Television, also known as Extended Definition Television...

EGA

The IBM PC computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of colour and space resolution...

Equalization

Equalization, or EQ for short, means boosting or reducing (attenuating) the levels of different frequencies in a signal...

EVGA

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...

FCC

Federal Communications Commission...

Fiber Optics

Refers to the medium and the technology associated with the transmission of information as light pulses along a glass or plastic wire or fiber...

Fixed Pixel Displays

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...

FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is an audio codec audio data compression...

Frequency

Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time...

Frequency Modulation

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...

Genlocking

A technique where the video output of one source is used to synchronise other video sources together...

HD

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)...

HD Ready

Indicates the capability of a television to display High Definition video content...

HD-DVD

High-definition DVD is a now defunct high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video...

HDCP

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)...

HDMI

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...

HDMI 1.0 to 1.2

HDMI 1...

HDMI 1.3

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HDMI 1.4

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HDMI Connector Types

<b>Type A (HDMI® Connector):</b> The most common and well recognised HDMI connector variant...

HDTV

High Definition TV...

HDV

HDV is a format for recording of high-definition video on DV cassette tape...

HSXGA

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...

Hue

Hue determines the weakness or intensity of a colour...

HUXGA

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...

HXGA

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...

IEEE 1394 (FireWire)

IEEE-1394 is a high speed serial digital interfacing standard used to transfer digital video signals from one piece of equipment to another...

Infrared Touchscreen

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...

Interlacing

Interlacing is a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal without consuming extra bandwidth...
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