Specifications

Glossary

DAC (D/A converter) - An IC Chip that converts digital signals into analogue.

Deep Colour - is a term used to describe a gamut (colour space) comprising a billion or more colors. The

HDMI 1.3 specication supports Deep Colour bit depths. It denes bit depths for Deep Color as 30 (10)

bits (1.073 billion colors), 36 (12) bits (68.71 billion colors), and 48 (16) bits (281.5 trillion colors).

Dolby TrueHD - Dolby TrueHD is an advanced lossless multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby

Laboratories which is intended primarily for high-denition home-entertainment equipment such as Blu-

ray discs.

Dolby Digital Plus (DD+) – a digital audio compression format developed from the earlier Dolby Digital

increasing quality and available channels.

DTS-HD Master Audio - is a lossless audio codec created by Digital Theater System, developed from the

earlier DTS with increased sampling frequency and bit rate.

Dynamic Range - Dynamic range describes the ratio of the quietist sound to the loudest sound in a

musical instrument or piece of electronic equipment.

Downscaling –is the reduction of video signal from one size (resolution) to another

DVI – Digital Video Interface is a video interface standard designed to provide very high visual quality on

digital display devices such as at panel LCD displays and digital projectors.

Digital Noise Reduction - Eliminates unwanted colour noise from the video signal for smoother image

reproduction.

De-interlaced Video – a video image is made up of a series of still images played in rapid succession, this

is divided into a series of scan lines drawn on the display, De-interlaced video draws all these scan lines

in one pass.

Ethernet - A PC interface used to connect computers and peripherals in a Local Area Network (LAN).

Full HD – 1920 x 1080p (progressive) video resolution.

HD – High Denition.

HD Ready - TVs that can display High Denition content in both 720p and 1080i formats as a minimum

standard.

HDD – Hard disk drive.

HDTV – High denition Television.

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