Television

Television

Any device used to transmit and recieve moving images, usually accompanied by sound.

Industry: Consumer electronics

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Community antenna relay station (CARS)

Consumer electronics; Television

Stations where large community antennas are constructed, and cable is run from the station to individual homes.

Colour burst

Consumer electronics; Television

In NTSC, a few cycles of the 3.58MHz colour subcarrier imposed on the composite video signal back porch as a reference.

Coaxial cable

Consumer electronics; Television

A broadband cable with a centre conductor, insulating dielectric, and an outer shield.

Carrier or carrier wave

Consumer electronics; Television

An electromagnetic wave that is dynamically altered in order to convey intelligence.

Downstream

Consumer electronics; Television

The signal flow direction in a CATV system when it travels from the headend to the service subscriber.

Digital light processing (DLP)

Consumer electronics; Television

A process to enhance picture quality. A DLP chip contains a rectangular array of up to 2 million hinge-mounted microscopic mirrors; each of these micromirrors measures less than one-fifth the width ...

Distortion

Consumer electronics; Television

Undesired changes in a signal waveform caused by the inherent nonlinearities of active devices and other processing elements of the transmission system.