GLOSSARY
Menu | A list of selectable options displayed on the screen. |
NTSC Video | A video output format of some video tape and disk players. There are two types of |
| NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) video: NTSC 3.58 and NTSC |
| 4.43. NTSC 3.58 is used primarily in North America and Japan. NTSC 4.43 is less |
| commonly used. |
Optical Screen | A type of |
| increase image brightness in front of the screen. Screen gain is usually greater than |
| 1 but audience viewing angles are reduced. |
PAL Video | PAL (Phase Alternating Line) video is a 50 Hz standard with 768 x 576 resolution. |
| It is found on some video tape and disk players (used primarily in Europe, China |
| and some South American and African countries). |
Pincushion | A distortion of the image shape characterized by concave or convex borders. |
Pixel (picture element) | The smallest discernible element of data from a |
Pixel Phase | The phase of the pixel sampling clock relative to incoming data. |
Pixel Tracking | The frequency of the pixel sampling clock, indicated by the number of pixels per |
| line. |
Projector-to-Screen Distance
The distance between the projector's front feet centers and the screen. Also called "Throw Distance".
Protocol | The type of code format called "A" or "B" utilized by the remote keypad(s). The |
| default protocol set at manufacture is Protocol "A". By using two different keypad |
| protocols, adjacent projectors can be controlled independently with their remote |
| IR keypads. |
| A selectable menu item that unfolds into a list of options pertaining to it. |
Rear Screen | A translucent panel for screen projection. Incident light travels through the inci- |
| dent surface of a rear screen and forms an image on the other surface. |
Resizing | The ability to manipulate through software commands the physical size, placement |
| and/or aspect ratio of an image. |
Resolution (lens) | The maximum number of alternate white and black horizontal lines that can be dis- |
| tinguished on a screen when a photographic target is placed between the lens and |
| a light source and illuminated by that source. |
Resolution (projector) | The maximum number of pixels that the projector can display horizontally and |
| vertically across an image, such as 1280 x 1024. |
Retrace Time | (Horizontal) The minimum time required for a CRT projector to move the position |
| of the scanning spot from the right edge to the left edge. |
Rise Time | The time required by the video amplifier of the projector to increase its output |
| from 10% to 90% of the maximum value. |
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