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24p motion pictur e display: Movies r eleased on Blu-r ay Disc sup-
port the 24p motion pictur e display . The Blu-r ay pla yer tr ansfer s the
original film format t o the television with 2 4 fr ames per second. The
DMM (DigitalMo vieMode ) set in the f actory calculat es and inserts
additional intermediat e pictur es, which suppr ess film jerking t ypical
for the cinema, ther eby pr oviding for a smooth motion s equence .
A
Accur ate Recor ding: See A utomatic time control.
Administr ator: P erson who administ ers the netw ork, i.e . takes c ar e of
set ting up and maintaining all component s belonging to the net work.
Activ e antenna: An antenna with its own po wer supply or amplification
which can impr ove the r eception in ar eas with a poor co ver age .
ARC: Abbr eviation for A udio Return Channel.
Audio R eturn Channel: The audio r eturn channel which w as intr oduced
with the HDMI Standar d 1.4 is used when an audio sy stem with audio
(pr e) amplifier , e. g. Loe we MediaV ision 3D , is connect ed to a TV s et via
HDMI. The digital audio signal o f the TV set ( e. g. the sound of the cur-
r ent TV progr am) c an be tr ansferr ed to the audio amplifier via the audio
r eturn channel of the HDMI cable . Thus the same cable which is normally
r esponsible for tr ansferring imag e data from a c onnected media play er to
the TV set tr ansfer s the audio data in the opposit e direction. In this w ay , the
audio r eturn channel makes the cinch c able, which has pr eviously been
r equired in addition t o the HDMI cable, r edundant.
Automatic time contr ol: Also called A ccurate Recor ding. Similar to
VPS f or analogue stations the aut omatic time contr ol monitor s the start
and end times of pr ogr ammes fr om D VB stations . If these times de viate
fr om the data pr ogr ammed in the timer data, the running time of the
r ecor ding is adapted aut omatically . The aut omatic time contr ol is not
supported b y all D VB stations .
A V sock et: Socket f or audio and video signals.
A V sour ces: Audio/Video s our ce.
A VI: Abbr eviation f or Audio Video Int erleave , a video container file f or-
mat developed b y Micros oft. A single A VI video file can c ontain sev e r al
audio, video and t ext data s tr eams (thus the name cont ainer format ).
B
Band: Name f or a tr ansmission r ange .
Blu-ray Dis c: The f ollow-up f ormat of DVD . The conten ts of about
five D VDs fit onto one Blu-r ay Disc ( abbre viated BD ). Ther efor e, the
Blu-r ay disc pr ovides enough spac e for high-r esolution imag es and
multi-channel sound f ormats.
C
BMP: Abbr eviation for Bitmap , a grid gr aphics format de signed for
Micr osoft Window s and OS/ 2 that is wide spre ad and ther efor e sup-
ported b y almost ev ery popular graphics so ftw are p ackag e without
any pr oblems.
C
C A Module: T he Conditional Acces s module contains the cod-
ing sy st em and comp ar es the transmit ted code with the one on the
Smart Card. If the y match, the appr opriate s tations or pr ogr ammes
ar e decoded.
CEC: Abbr eviation f or Consumer Electr onics Contr ol. CEC pr ovides uni-
ver sal component c ontr ol functions for entertainment electr onics device s
( e.g. S yst em standby , One T ouch Pla y ). CE C is r eferr ed to by L oew e as
Digital Link HD.
Channel (WLAN): Device s that wan t to c ommunicat e with each other
hav e to us e the same WiF i channel. In Eur ope the WiFi fr equency band
is curr ently divided into 13 channels.
Cinch cable: Cable for tr ansmitting sound or pictur es.
CI slot: See Common Interfac e.
Client: Also called ne tw ork client, describe s an end device such as
your TV s et that is connect ed to the netw ork and ge ts data fr om a
(media ) server to mak e it acces sible to the us er .
Common Interf ace: The Common Int erfac e ( CI slot) is a st andar d-
ised int erfac e. By inserting suitable dec oding modules (C A modules)
and a Smart Card c oded digital pr ogr ammes can be us ed.
Common Interf ace Plus: CI Plus is an adv ancement of the C ommon
Interface s tandar d. CI Plus slots ar e in principle downw ar d comp atible
to the pr evious CI st andar d, i.e . CA modules and Smart Car ds acc or d-
ing to the p ast CI standar d can c ontinue to be us ed in CI Plus slots ,
as far as the pr ogr amme pr ovider permits this. Additionally , ext ended
r egulations apply howev er to CI P lus.
Component: See Component connection.
Component connection: Also r ef err ed to as Component. Connec-
tion wher e the video signal is transf erred via thr ee separ ate ( Cinch)
connections. It c omprises the brightness signal Y as w ell as the colour
diff er ence signals Pb (blue component ) and Pr (r ed component).
Conditional A ccess module: See C A module.
D
DHCP: Abbr eviation for Dynamic Hos t Configur ation Pr otocol. DHCP
allow s automatic as signment of IP addr esse s with the aid of a DHCP
server .
DHCP server: Netw ork servic e which tak es car e of aut omatic assign-
ment of IP addr esses t o clients.
Digital Link HD: Sy stem f or contr olling units via the HDMI connection
of the L oew e TV set when the y have been s et up in a co ver ed position.
DMM: Abbr eviation for Digital Mo vie Mode. Whe ther a studio r ecor d-
ing, live br oadcast , or feat ur e film – the bro adcast imag es ar e alwa ys
display ed optimally . Still image s ar e repr oduced in all their sharpnes s
and tr anquillity . By cr eating intermediat e images, DMM enable s perfect
studio qualit y , ev en with quick movemen ts.
DNC: Abbr eviation for “Digital Noise Contr ol”. We ak TV signals ( ana-
logue ) can g enerat e disruptive pictur e noise. DNC adjusts the ef fect
of digital nois e r eduction to the pictur e contents .
DNS: Abbr eviation for Domain Name Sy st em. Readable name s ( e.g.
www .loew e-int.de ) ar e assigned t o numerical IP addr esses. DNS
server s are r esponsible for the r esolution o f r eadable addr ess es into
the corr esponding IP addr esses .
Dolb y Digital: Digital multi-channel sound. T he digital standar d for
high quality home mo vie sy st ems. The individual channels ar e br oad-
cast s epar ately in this st andar d. The thr ee fr ont channels right, left
and centr e, the t wo surr ound channels right and left and the ext ernal
subw oof er channels ar e called a 5.1 signal.
Dolb y Pr o Logic: Analogue multi-channel sound. Con verts a Dolb y-
coded st ereo signal int o a surround s ound. This usually c ontains four
channels (fr ont left, centr e, fr ont right, surr ound channel). A special
subw oof er channel is not gener ated in this method.
Dolb y Pr o Logic II: Analogue multi-channel sound. Dolb y Pr o Logic II
is a further development o f Dolby P ro Logic. This me thod gener ate s
a 6-channel spatial sound fr om a st er eo or Pr o-Logic signal ( front left ,
centr e, fr ont right, surr ound left, surr ound right, subwoo fer ).
Dolb y Surround: An analogue surr ound sound sy st em which uses a
matrix coding t o fit four s ound channels into t wo sound tr acks.
Dolb y Virtual Speaker: The Dolby V irtual Speak er technology
simulate s the surr ound playback of a r eal 5.1 channel pla yback with
only tw o speaker s.
DRM: Digital Rights Manag ement. Pr ocesse s to c ontr ol copyright
pr otected data. T o be used corr ectly , DRM prot ected cont ents r equire
not only a DRM capable de vice but als o the posse ssion of a lic ense
issued by the pr ovider ( to be p aid for ).
DT S: Digital Theatr e Sys tems; Digit al multi-channel audio.