| GLOSSARY |
4:3 | 4:3 is an aspect ratio of traditional squarish National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) TV screens; it stands for four |
| units of width for every three units of height. |
Audio Video (A/V) | A term often used when discussing a channel on a TV receiver or on video equipment, which has been |
| especially designed to accept VCR |
| within the TV set to prevent picture distortion and skewing. It is also used for |
| handle both types of signals. |
Cable Converter Box | A device that allows your television to receive the expanded number of channels provided by broadcasters. Some of these |
| programs provided by the broadcast may not be free, you’ll have to pay to view them. |
Coaxial Cable | Coaxial cable is a copper cable used to connect cable signal coming from Cable TV Company to the TV. |
Composit Video Input | An analog encoded video signal that includes vertical and horizontal synchronizing information. Since both luminance |
Connection | (brightness) and chrominance (color) signals are encoded together, only a signal connection wire is needed. A composite |
| video jack is usually a single |
Component Video | Provides the highest possible color and picture resolution on the playback of digital signal source material like DVD players. |
Input Connection | The color difference signals (Pb, Pr) and the luminance(Y) signals are connected separately which allows for improved |
| color bandwidth information (not possible when using composite video or |
Letterbox | Letterbox refers to the image of a |
Luminance | The brightness or |
NTSC | National television system committee. The organization that developed the analog television standard currently in use in the |
| U.S., Canada, and Japan. Now generally used to refer to that standard. The NTSC standard combines blue, red, and green |
| signals modulated as an AM signal with an FM signal for audio. |
Separated video. An encoded video s ignal which separates the brightness from color data. | |
| the picture when connecting TVs to any high quality video source such as digital broadcast satellite (DBS) and DVDs. |
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