Glossary - Loewe Xelos 46 Operating Instructions Manual

Glossary

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24p movie display: Films released on Blu-ray Disc support presentation of
24p cinema films. The Blu-ray player transfers the original film format to
the television with 24 frames per second. The DMM (DigitalMovieMode)
set in the factory calculates and inserts additional intermediate pictures,
which suppress film jerking typical for the cinema, thereby providing for
a smooth motion sequence.
A
Active antenna: An antenna with its own power supply or amplification
which can improve the reception is areas with a poor coverage.
Administrator: Person who administers the network, i.e. takes care of
setting up and maintaining all components belonging to the network.
Automatic time control: Similar to VPS for analogue stations the automatic
time control monitors the start and end times of programmes from DVB
stations. If these times deviate from the data programmed in the timer
data the running time of the recording is adapted automatically. The
automatic time control is not supported by all DVB stations.
AVI: Abbreviation for Audio Video Interleave, a video container file format
developed by Microsoft. A single AVI video file can contain several audio,
video and text data streams (thus the name container format).
AV socket: Socket for audio and video signals.
AV sources: Audio/video source.
AVS: Audio/video sockets on the side of the TV set (cinch and mini-DIN).
B
Band: Name for a transmission range.
Blu-ray Disc: The follow-up format of DVD. The contents of about five
DVDs fit onto one Blu-ray Disc (abbreviated BD). Therefore, the Blu-ray
disc provides enough space for high-resolution images and multi-channel
sound formats.
BMP: Abbreviation for Bitmap, a grid graphics format designed for Micro-
soft Windows and OS/2 that is wide spread and therefore supported by
almost every popular graphics software package without any problems.
C
CA module: The Conditional Access module contains the coding system
and compares the transmitted code with the one on the Smart Card. If
they match, the appropriate stations or programmes are decoded.
CEC: Abbreviation for Consumer Electronics Control. CEC provides uni-
versal component control functions for entertainment electronics devices
(e.g. System standby, One Touch Play). CEC is also known as Digital Link
HD at Loewe.
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Channel (WLAN): The channel is a certain part of the WLAN frequency
band. Devices that want to communicate with each other have to use the
same WLAN channel. In Europe the WLAN frequency band is currently
divided into 13 channels.
Cinch cable: Cable for transmitting audio or video.
CI slot: See Common Interface.
Client: Also referred to as network client; describes an end device such
as your TV set that is connected to the network and gets data from a
(media) server to make it accessible to the user.
Common Interface: The Common Interface (CI slot) is a standardised
interface. By inserting suitable decoding modules (CA modules) and a
Smart Card coded digital programmes can be used.
Common Interface Plus: CI Plus is an advanced development of the Com-
mon Interface standard. CI Plus slots are in principle downward compatible
to the previous CI standard, i.e. CA modules and Smart Cards according
to the past CI standard can continue to be used in CI Plus slots, as far as
the programme provider permits this. Additionally, extended regulations
apply however to CI Plus.
Component: See Component connection.
Component connection: Also referred to as Component. Connection where
the video signal is transferred via three separate (Cinch) connections. It
comprises the brightness signal Y as well as the colour difference signals
Pb (blue component) and Pr (red component).
Conditional Access module: See CA module.
D
Decoder: Analogue, coded TV signals are passed through a decoder and
made visible again.
DHCP: Abbreviation for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. DHCP al-
lows automatic assignment of IP addresses with the aid of a DHCP server.
DHCP server: Network service which takes care of automatic assignment
of IP addresses to clients.
Digital Link: System for controlling recorders (for video and DVD recorders
from Loewe) via the Euro AV sockets of the Loewe TV set with concealed
setup. Controlling the recorder for timer recordings.
Digital Link HD: System for controlling devices via the HDMI connection
of the Loewe TV set in the case of concealed installation.
Digital Link Plus: System for controlling recorders according to protocol
50. For analogue stations the station and timer data are transmitted via
the EURO-AV socket to the recorder. The timer recording is executed
exclusively by the recorder. There is a different designation with different
manufacturers.
DivX: Video Codec which allows even large files to be relatively highly com-
pressed in their file size without having to tolerate important quality losses.