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the point of view left or right, "panffmg" the _ame.
Cinema purists hate Pan & Scan
because it disrupts the director's original vision.
Others appreciate a picture that fills their
4:3 screen.
Personal
Video Recorder
(PVR).
System that records video onto a hard drive. PVRs
offer many new opportunities,
including the ability to hold 80 hours of programs,
the
ability to pause live TV and the ability to automatically suggest TV shows you might like
and record them _br you.
Plasma.
A flat panel television display type in which plasma gas pixels glow when
excited by electrodes,
Progressive
Scanning.
The opposite of Interlaced
scanning.
Shows each scanning line
in sequence,
lbr a more seamless, more film-like image.
Projection.
A television display system that projects the image as light onto a screen.
Front projectors
are located out among the audience and project on a reflective,
white
screen.
Rear projectors
are self-contained
boxes that project onto a translucent
screen.
Resolution.
A measure
of video signal detail _br source material, transmission
channels,
recorders
and displays.
Resolution
can be measured
in pixels or in "lines of resolution."
RF connector.
Accommodates
a local TV broadcast
antenna or cable.
Satellite
Speaker.
A compact speaker that reproduces
all of an audio signal except lbr
the deepest octaves of bass. Many home theater speaker systems use satellite speakers
lbr the full-range
channels and subwoofers
to handle the bass.
Stereo Broadcast
Reception.
Decodes MTS stereo TV broadcasts.
Can include dbx®
noise reduction
_br better sound.
Snbwoofer.
A specialized
loudspeaker
that handles only bass _equencies
(typically 200
Hz and below).
The subwoofer
is ideally suited to reproducing
the "0.1" Low Frequency
Effects channel of modern surround sound systems.
Most subwoofers
are also "active,"
meaning
that the), include their o_l power amplifier.
Super Audio CD playback.
High-resolution
audio that enables you to rediscover
your
love of music.
The highest quality sound source available
today, Super Audio CD
supports both stereo and multi-channel
music reproduction.
Super Fine Pitch
TM
CRT. Refinement
of the Sony FD Trinitron
CRT thai enables even
higher resolution.
S-Video
connection.
Enables you to connect video equipment
to your Ai* r receiver at
high signal quality.
S-Video keeps the black-and-white
signal (luminance)
apart _om the
color signal (chrominance)
to maintain picture quality.
Universal
remote
control.
Simplifies
operation by also controlling
many brands of TVs,
VCRs, DVD players and AJn, r receivers.
(May not be compatible
with all brands and
models.)
VCRPIns+
Gold technology.
A VCR feature that makes channel programming
and
timer setting easy.
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