Thursday, March 18, 2010

Video Bandwidth

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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The term video bandwidth literally refers to a television monitor’s ability to refresh and represent images on the display screen.  The higher the bandwidth on the LCD the better the refresh rate and image quality offered on the LCD TV.  The more bandwidth supplied, the higher the resolution supported on the TV; this minimizes issues [...]

VGA

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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The term VGA is an acronym and an abbreviated form of Video Graphics Array.  A VGA is a display system for graphics on personal computers created by IBM.  A VGA display system offered different resolutions; for presenting text mode visuals a resolution of 720×400 pixels is offered.  Graphics use more pixels: a resolution of 640×480 [...]

Tilt

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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Tilt is another term used in the movie making business for adjusting a film so that it presents on a widescreen film on a digital display.  When an image is cropped it is sometimes referred to as the tilt and scan or the reverse pan and scan.  The term tilt can also reference an LCD [...]

TFT

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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TFT is an acronym which means thin film transistor and is also a reference to an active matrix LCD.  The TFT is created out of amorphous silicon and the latter device is utilized as a switch in order to charge the storage component situated beneath every sub pixel within an active matrix LCD.  A TFT [...]

S-Video

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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The latter term literally means super video.  The S-Video is a method for transmitting signals through a cable by separating the information into two distinct signals: one signal sends colour data and the other sends luminance data.  The latter technology proves superior to composite video signal interpretation.

SVGA

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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SVGA is an acronym that stands for Super Video Graphics Array. The latter term refers to graphic standards established to present better resolution than regular VGA offerings. SVGA supports 480,000 pixels which equals 800×600 resolution displays.

Response Time

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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The latter term, when referencing LCD television sets, indicates the time that passes as a liquid crystal cell is activated to the time that it becomes inactive and back again.  Response times are measured in measurements of milliseconds.  The faster the response time is on a television set the sharper images are and the better [...]

Pixel

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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The term pixel is the combination of abbreviated forms of two different words: picture and element.  A pixel is one point or dot within a graphic or image.  On an LCD the image is divided up into many thousands of pixels which are situated in columns and rows.  Pixels are placed incredibly close together giving [...]

Max Sync Rate

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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A Sync Rate in an LCD is a technique for converting a signal which is interpreted via an input.  The signal picks up digital information that is both horizontal and vertical.  This information is detected, interpreted, and represented on the display screen of the LCD.  The sync rate determines how the image is interpreted and [...]

Max Resolution

March 18, 2009 by admin  
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Resolution relates to the intensity and crispness of images which are reproduced by special electronic equipment on a display screen.  The acronym DPI directly refers to the resolution measurement a device offers or the dots per inch/pixels within a display screen as they are measured in millimeters.  The Max Resolution is the highest resolution offered [...]

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