Philips SL400i/37 manual Glossary, English

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Chapter 18 - Glossary

Ad-Hoc Network

Access Point (Infrastructure network)

Black Level

Broadband

Chroma Delay

Codec

DHCP

Ethernet

Firewall

Gamma

Gateway

Horizontal position (Advanced TV Setting)

Infrastructure Network

MAC Address

NAT (Network Address Translation)

Peer-to-peer

Philips Media Manager

Progressive Scan (P-SCAN)

Proxy address

SSID

STP

Streaming

Streamium

Vertical position (Advanced TV Setting)

WEP

Wireless Base Station (wireless gateway router)

Wireless USB Adapter (wireless network adapter)

A direct network connection between two devices (two computers, or a PC and the SL400i).

A network connection between two or more devices (computers, or PCs and the SL400i) with a central network host (router, base station or PC).

Black level shift improves the reproduction of the dark (black) portions of the picture and the color contrast for NTSC (US). Black level shift has no effect for PAL (EU).

The Internet bandwidth determines the speed of your Internet connection. Broadband Internet is everything above 256 kbps.

Color fine-tuning for different types of TV screens.

A software format for compressing and de-compressing media.

If a network has a central host computer, wireless base station or router that acts as a DHCP server, this server allocates IP addresses, netmasks, and the gateway address to all DHCP client computers and devices in the network automatically.

The most popular type of wired home network.

A firewall acts as a barrier that helps protect your network from intruders from the Internet. The firewall specifies what information can be communicated from the computers on your network to the Internet, and from the Internet to the computers on your network.

Display intensity setting for different types of TV screens.

The computer or network device that provides access to the Internet.

Shifts the horizontal position of the display on the TV screen.

See Access Point.

The unique 12-character hardware address of the (wireless) network adapter. Sometimes used for identifying network hardware.

A security feature implemented in most Internet gateway routers and Wireless Base Stations to keep your home network safe from intrusions from the Internet.

See Ad-Hoc Network

The software you need to install and have active on your computer to be able to use PC Link for sending music, photo and movie files from the PC to the SL400i.

Normal TV broadcast sends two interlaced half-images for every image displayed on your TV screen. Digital video sources (like the SL400i) do not need interlacing and use progressive scan technology that gives you super sharp, flicker-free images.

The address of an intermediate computer, provided to you by your Internet Service Provider. Sometimes needed for accessing the Internet.

The wireless network name (this is not the same as your computer network name).

Shielded Twisted Pair.The type of network cable you need to use.

Playing media content from the Internet while it is downloading is called 'streaming'.

The Philips range of Internet enabled products.

Shifts the vertical position of the display on the TV screen.

Designates a type of wireless encryption.

A hardware device that interconnects your wireless home network to the Internet.

The hardware device that you need to connect to your PC to be able to make wireless contact with the SL400i.