Terms & Definitions - RGBlink X14 User Manual

6.2 Terms & Definitions
The following terms and definitions are used throughout this guide.
● RCA： Connector used primarily in consumer AV equipment for both audio and video. The
RCA connector was developed by the Radio Corporation of America.
● BNC: Stands for Bayonet Neill-Concelman. A cable connector used extensively in television (named
for its inventors). A cylindrical bayonet connector that operates with a twist-locking motion .
● CVBS：CVBS or Composite video, is an analog video signal without audio. Most commonly CVBS
is used for transmission of standard definition signals. In consumer applications the connector is
typically RCA type, while in professional applications the connector is BNC type.
● YPbPr: Used to describe the colour space for progressive-scan. Otherwise known as component
video.
● VGA： Video Graphics Array. VGA is an analog signal typically used on earlier computers. The signal is
non-interlaced in modes 1, 2, and 3 and interlaced when using in mode
● DVI ： Digital Visual Interface. The digital video connectivity standard that was developed by
DDWG (Digital Display Work Group). This connection standard offers two different connectors:
one with 24 pins that handles digital video signals only, and one with 29 pins that handles both
digital and analog video.
● SDI ： Video signal standardized in SMPTE 424M that uses a single serial link at 2 Gbit/s for
uncompressed transmission of video with embedded audio. Connector is BNC.
● HDMI ： High Definition Multimedia Interface: An interface used for the transmission of
uncompressed high definition video, up to 8 channels of audio, and control signals, over a single
cable.
● DisplayPort: A VESA standard interface primarily for video, but also for audio, USB and other data.
DisplayPort (orDP) is backwards compatible with HDMI, DVI and VGA.
● NTSC : The colour video standard used in North America and some other parts of the
world created by the National Television Standards Committee in the 1950s. NTSC utilizes
an interlaced video signals.
● PAL: Phase Alternate Line. A television standard in which the phase of the colour carrier is
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