Glossary

1

12 degree DDR DMD

4

A

AC-3
Active Matrix
Active Video
ADC
Addressable Resolution
Aliasing
ALIS
Ambient Light
Anamorphic
ANSI
ANSI Lumens
Aperture
Apochromatic
Aspect Ratio
Audio In & Out
Audio In and Out
Authoring Systems
AVI

B

Balanced Audio
Banding
Bandwidth
Beta SP
Betacam
Black Level
Blooming
Blu-Ray
BNC connector
Built in loop through

C

Capacitive touchscreens
CCD
Chroma
Chroma Corrector
Chroma delay
Chroma noise
Closed captioning
CMYK
Colour banding
Colour depth
Colour Difference
Colour Space
Combing
Component Video
Composite
Compression
Contrast Ratio
Convergence

D

D

De-interlacer
DIN
Direct Power Off
Distribution amplifier
DLP
Dot Pitch
DPI
DV
DVD
DVI

E

F

F-stops
Field
Film Artefacts
Fixed Pixel Display
Flicker Fusion Threshold
Focus
Foot Lamberts
Frame
Frame Rate

G

Gain
Gamma
Genlock
GIF
Ground Loop

H

Halogen
HD-DVD
HD-SDI
HDCP
HDMI
HDReady
High Definition
Horizontal and Vertical Sync
Hue

I

Interface
Interlaced Video
IRE
ITU-R BT.601-2

J

K

Keying
Keystoning

L

LCD
Loop Through
Luminance

M

M1 Connection
Metal Halide
Microperforated screen
MLA (Micro Lens Array)
Mouse Emulator

M

MPEG-2
Multiplex

N

Native Resolution
NTSC

O

Overlay
Overscan

P

PAL
Pincushion
Pixel
Pixelation
Plenum Cable
Pluge
Polysilicon
Posterisation

Q

R

Rainbow Effect
RCA
Rear Screen Projection
Resistive touchscreens
Resolution
RGB
RMS Watts

S

S-Video
Scaler
Scan Converter
SCART
Screen-door effect (SDE)
SDI
SECAM
Surround Sound

T

TFT
Three panel LCD
Throw distance
Twitter

U

V

VGA cable
Video Capture

W

Windows Media Video
WMF

X

Y

Z

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