User`s guide

Glossary - 2
NTSC National Television Systems Committee. North
American and Japanese television technical standards
organization. Frame rate is 30 per second. See frame.
PAL Phase Alternate Line. European (excluding France)
television standard.
pixel, pel Picture element. Smallest addressable area of the
computer screen.
resolution Number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen at
one time. For example, 640x480 means 640 pixels
horizontally, and 480 pixels vertically, for a total of
307,200. See pixel.
S-video Type of video signal used in Hi8 and S-VHS videotape
formats. It transmits luminance (brightness) and
chrominance (color) portions separately, using multiple
wires, avoiding the NTSC encoding process and the
resultant loss of picture quality. Also known as Y-C
video. See composite video, NTSC.
SECAM SEquential Couleur A Memoire. French color TV
system (also adopted in Russia).
tint The amount of color.
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association.
VFC VESA Feature Connector. 26-pin connector. See
VESA.
VGA IBM’s Video Graphics Array. Provides 16 colors from
a palette of 256,000.
.WAV Waveform audio. Under Windows
™, digital audio
files are normally stored with the file extension .WAV
(waveform audio). See waveform, waveform audio.
waveform Visual representation of an audio file, where the
volume level of individual samples is displayed,
showing the highs and lows in volume over time. Under
Windows
™, digital audio files are normally stored with
the file extension .WAV (waveform audio). See
waveform audio.
waveform
audio
Digitized sample of an audio waveform, stored in a
form the PC can understand and manipulate. See
waveform.
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