Closed Captioning • The broadcast
standard feature that allows you to
read the voice content of television
programs on the TV screen. Designed
to help the hearing impaired, Closed
Captioning uses onscreen text boxes
to show dialogue and conversations
while a TV program is in progress.
Coaxial Cable • A single solid wire
normally matched with a metal plug (F-
type) end connector that screws (or
pushes) directly onto a 75-ohm input
found on the television or VCR.
Comb Filter • TV filter that removes
distortion, resulting in a sharper and
purer color display.
Component Video Inputs • Inputs
that allow the separate reception of
blue, red, and luminance signals. These
inputs provide the highest possible
color and picture resolution in the
playback of digital signal-source materi-
al. Component video inputs allow for
improved bandwidth information not
possible through composite video or S-
Video connections.
Composite Video Input • An input
in which all the components required
for displaying the onscreen image are
combined in one signal.
Convergence • The technique used
in color TV for bringing the red, green,
and blue color beams together so that
they hit the same part of the picture
tube screen at the same time. This
avoids color fringes around images in
the picture.
HDMI • Stands for High Definition
Multimedia Interface. It is a digial con-
nection that can carry digital HD video
as well digital multichannel audio. By
elimating the conversion to analog sig-
nals it delivers a perfect picture and
sound quality.
High-definition Television (HDTV)
• HDTV is high-resolution digital televi-
sion. It has lifelike pictures, and with it
films retain their original width,
enhancing the home theater experi-
ence.
Incredible Surround™ • False
acoustic management of the audio sig-
nal that produces a dramatic expansion
of the wall of sound that surrounds the
listener and heightens overall viewing
pleasure.
Integrated HDTV Tuner • A built
in tuner that receives and displays ter-
restrial ATSC and unscrambled cable
(64/256 QAM) signals. It eliminates the
need for an additional HD settop box.
Interlaced • A picture-scanning tech-
nique that improves the appearance of
onscreen motion. It also helps smooth
jagged lines that are sometimes seen
on curved and angled surfaces in the
picture.
NTSC • National Television Standards
Committee format devised in the
1940s for TV broadcast analog video
signals
(525 lines: 30 Hz).
Onscreen Displays (OSD) • The
wording or messages generated by the
television (or VCR) to help you with
specific feature controls (color adjust-
ment or programming, for example).
Picture-in-Picture • The showing of
two pictures on the TV screen at the
same time (one main screen picture
and one small picture, or PIP).
Progressive Scan • A picture-scan-
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