Timbre - The "voice" or basic tonal quality of a speaker. To avoid distractions and achieve realism in a home theatre system, each of the system's speakers should have an identical, or at least similar, timbre.
Component video. This 3-wire convention was created for connecting DVD players to TVs or monitors. It avoids downgrading the signal to NTSC. The signals may be RGB or YPrPb. Some HD STBs have only component video output.
JPEG - An acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, a JPEG is the most commonly used type of digital image format. By eliminating very subtle color distinctions that the human eye usually cannot detect, JPEG images are compressed so that they can save faster and use less space. Because JPEG format actually alters an image, it's compression is said to be "lossy," meaning that a certain amount of data is lost every time a JPEG is edited, saved, and compressed again.
Megabyte - A megabyte (MB) is a unit of data used to describe the size of digital images and the capacity of a digital memory card. Memory cards are available in sizes ranging from 8MB to 2 Gigabytes (a Gigabyte is the equivalent of 1,024MB).
Aspect Ratio - The relationship of an image's horizontal length and vertical height. The horizontal length number is placed first (i.e. 3 - 2).
Cyan - One of the three subtractive primary colors. Produced by mixing equal amounts of blue and green projected light. Cyan is also one of the four colors used in 4-color printing.
EXE - A Microsoft Windows file extension used for applications that are "executable," and immediately launch a program when opened.
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