Philips 21PT5217 user manual Glossary, Expand, Personal Zapping, VHS Signals, System

Glossary

4:3

Refers to the ration between the length and the height of the screen.Wide screen televisions have a ration of 16:9 while conventional televisions have a ratio of 4:3.

4:3 Expand

The images recorded in “letterbox” format are expanded to fill the entire screen and the black horizontal bars at the top and bottom are removed.

Personal Zapping

A Philips trade marked feature which allows any combination of favourite teletext pages or TV channels to be stored in the coloured Favourite Channels/Teletext keys.A total of 10 preferred channels/teletext pages of the same subject or user can be stored in each coloured key.

S-VHS Signals

These are 2 separate Y/C video signals from the S-VHS and Hi-8 recording standards.The luminanace signals Y (Black and white) and chrominance signals C (colour) are recorded separately on the tape.This provides better picture quality than with standard video (VHS and 8 mm) where the Y/C signals are combined to provide only one video signal.

System

Television pictures are not broadcast in the same way in all countries.There are different standards: BG, DK, I, NTSC and SECAM.The system setting (p. 6) is used to select these different standards.

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