Philips 55PP9910 Quick start guide - Page 31

27 GLOSSARY 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 (Ftype) 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 material. Component video inputs allow for improved bandwidth information not possible through composite video or SVideo 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 connection that can carry digital HD video as well digital multichannel audio. By elimating the conversion to analog signals it delivers a perfect picture and sound quality. High-definition Television (HDTV) • HDTV is high-resolution digital television. It has lifelike pictures, and with it films retain their original width, enhancing the home theater experience. Incredible Surround™ • False acoustic management of the audio signal 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 terrestrial ATSC and unscrambled cable (64/256 QAM) signals. It eliminates the need for an additional HD settop box. Interlaced • A picture-scanning technique 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 adjustment 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-