5.1 channel - This is 6 channel audio. The 6th channel (the sub-woofer) has reduced bandwidth.
Density - The degree of opacity of a photographic film.
Closed Caption Decoder (CC on Mute) - Allows you to read on-screen subtitles and other information that accompanies selected television programming. Closed captioning allows the hearing impaired to more fully enjoy television viewing and can also be helpful in improving English language skills. You can program closed captioning to activate every time the mute key is pressed on the remote.
Noise - In image editing applications, a random pattern of unwanted pixels or pixel groupings called artifacts.
Colour Temperature Control - Allows the user to customize picture and white balance to their own personal taste by using three selectable settings.
Favorite Channel Memory - Stores up to 16 of your most frequently watched channels, allowing quick and easy scanning of preferred channels.
Radial Faceplate CRT - With the radial faceplate CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), the radial faceplate picture tubes combined with a short-throw lens system permits the depth of certain projection TV cabinets to be reduced. The CRT's curved faceplate focuses the light beam in the centre of the lenses, where focusing is most accurate.
16 Base - The 2048 x 3072 pixels image that is scanned and stored on a Photo CD and suitable for digital imaging and desktop publishing applications.
3:2 pull-down - This is the process of converting a 24 frames/sec image into a 30 frames/sec image. Some line-doublers will reverse this process to acquire the original, and then re-perform it.
Aspect Ratio - the ratio of image width to image height. The term may apply to the display device configuration, or the shape of the content being displayed. (See Letterboxing) HDTV uses an aspect ratio of 16 units wide by 9 units high. Conventional television programming and displays are at an aspect ratio of 4 - 3. Digital SDTV programs may aspect ratios from 4 - 3 to 16 - 9, dependant on content and its source (e.g. upconverted NTSC is likely to be 4 - 3).
Comb filter - A circuit in NTSC sets that separates the color information from the brightness information.
Descreening - A feature of some scanners that allow them to eliminate moir‚ patterns that can occur.
Franklin eBookMan - A line of eBook reader and content playing handhelds developed by Franklin.
Hertz (Hz.) - A scale used for measuring the number of cycles per second.
IEEE1394 - High-bandwidth digital connection that uses MPEG-2 compression. Requires a decoder for playback and offers networking capabilities.
Interlaced Scanning - Some HD televisions and most conventional televisions use the "interlace" method of scanning, in which the picture is transmitted and painted on the screen in two passes. In the first pass, every other line is painted and in the second, the lines in between. Some display types, such as LCD, plasma and DLP cannot display directly images transmitted as interlaced signals and must convert them to a progressive format prior to their display.
Sampling - This is the digital process by which analog information is measured, often millions of times per second, in order to convert analog to digital.
Surround Output Level - Allows adjustment of the rear speaker level relative to the front speaker level according to viewing location and individual preference.
