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A
AV socket: Audio and video signal.
AV sources: Audio/video source.
AVS: Audio/video front sockets on the TV set (cinch and Mini-DIN).
C
Cinch cable: Cable for transmitting sound or picture.
Component Signal: The Component video signal consists of the “Y” brightness
signal and the colour difference signals red and blue “U” and “V”. Therefore it is
sometimes called YUV signal. If the signal is transmitted in progressive scan, the
signals are called YcrCb. For transmission in half screen mode (line jump method
or interlace), the signals are called YPrPb.
D
Digital Link: System for controlling recorders (for Loewe video recorders and DVD
recorders) via the Euro AV sockets of the Loewe TV set when installed in a concealed
place. Control of the recorder for timer recordings.
Digital Link Plus: System for controlling recorders according to protocol 50. Station
and timer data are transmitted to the recorder via the Euro AV socket for analog
stations. The time recording is made exclusively by the recorder. Different names
at different manufacturers.
DTS: Digital multi-channel sound.
Dolby Digital: Digital multi-channel sound.
Dolby Pro Logic: Analog multi-channel sound.
Dolby Surround: is an analog multi-channel sound system which accommodates
four audio channels in two sound tracks using a matrix coding.
Dolby Virtual: Dolby Pro Logic audio signals are played over two speakers as a
virtual surround signal.
DVD: abbreviation for Digital Video Disc and later Digital Versatile Disc.
DVD-Preceiver: combi-device of DVD player and radio.
DVI: Digital Visual Interface is an interface for transmitting digital video and graphic
data (without sound).
E
Euro AV socket: Interface for connecting video recorders to a TV set. This socket is
also known as a Scart socket.
H
HDCP: Copy protection standard.
HDMI: High Definition Multimedia Interface is a newly developed interface for full
digital transmission of audio and video data.
L
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display.
L-Link: Interface for detection and control of Loewe audio components.
M
MPEG: Digital compression method for video.
Modulator: Transmitter in the recorder to receive signals via the TV tuner.
Mono: single channel sound.
N
NICAM: Sound standard NICAM is used in Belgium, Denmark, England, France,
Sweden and Spain.
NTSC: American color standard.
P
PAL: European colour standard.
PCM: Puls Code Modulation for digital sound.
PIP: Picture in Picture, a function which shows two pictures on one screen.
Progressive Scan: Progressive Scan (PS for short) is a technique in the picture build-
up of monitors, TV sets, beamers and other display devices in which the output
device is not sent line interlaced half pictures – unlike in the interlace technique
– but real full pictures.
Picture In Picture: see PIP.
R
RGB: colour signals red, green, blue.
S
Switching voltage: Video devices transmit this voltage to switch the TV to play.
SECAM: French colour standard.
SetTop-Box: Set-Top-Box refers to a device in entertainment electronics which is
connected to another device, usually a TV set and offers the user additional useful
features.
Signal strength: strength of the reception signal.
Signal quality: quality of the incoming signal.
Stereo: dual channel sound.
T
Terrestrial: In data transmission, a radio transmission which does not use a satellite
as an intermediate station is called terrestrial.
Tuner: receiver
V
VPS: The Video Program System (VPS) is a signal which some (but not all) stations
transmit in the scanning gap of the TV signal. The signal serves for video or DVD
recorders to react to differences in the starting time, postponements and overrun-
ning of the planned transmission time when recording programs.
Y
Ycc/Ypp: colour standard in Set-Top-Boxes.
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