【 Weak current College 】 digital home "interconnection" terminology you know?

Digital Home: Digital family refers to a variety of home appliances through different interconnected ways to communicate and Exchange data, household appliances and intercommunication between "," make it so you can more easily obtain information, thereby greatly improving humankind living comfort and entertainment.

HDMI: English name is "HighDefinitionMultimedia", Chinese mean high definition multimedia interface. HDMI interface can provide up to 5Gbps data transfer bandwidth, can transmit uncompressed audio signal and high resolution video signal.

DVI: (DigitalVisualInterface, digital video interface) earlier than HDMI, disadvantage is unable to transfer the digital audio signal.

HTPC: English name is the initials HomeTheaterPersonalComputer is the home theater personal computer "meaning. Simply put, it is a special focus on multimedia capabilities of a PC. Exact said, the computer plays the signal source and the control of home theater, also is a pre-installed various multimedia decoding broadcast software that can be used to play various audio and video media counterparts, and has a variety of interfaces, and a variety of display devices such as televisions, projectors, plasma displays, audio decoder, audio amplifiers, audio digital device using a personal computer.

HDCP: (High-BandwidthDigitalContentProtection) HD digital content protocols

Digital TV: (DigitalTV) is not a TV! it is included from filming, send, transmit to the receiving of the entire process is for TV users a "service", simply put, digital TV, DTV is shooting, editing, production, transport, receiving, and so the whole process is the use of digital technology (which is the signal used 0 and 1) television system.

Digital TV including digital SDTV and HDTV, digital, digital LDTV three. The main difference between the three is the image quality and bandwidth of the transmission channel. From the Visual effects, digital HDTV (more than 1000 lines) for high-definition TV (HighDefinitionTelevision) abbreviation, image quality may reach or approach the level of 35 mm wide film; SDTV (500-600 line) or standard definition television, mainly corresponding existing TV resolution level, its image quality as the Studio level; LDTV (200-300 lines) that the general definition television, mainly corresponding existing VCD resolution level. Because TV digital is the next trend, current references to HDTV and SDTV, LDTV, without special instructions shall mean all-digital system.

IPTV: IPTV, also known as "broadband TV", it is based on the IP protocol is a new type of television broadcasting services. Popular, is the user (visitor) through the Internet (wired or wireless), you can accept to video, audio, and other information, also known as seen on TV.

HDTV: (HighDefinisionTV), it is not equal to "digital TV" (DigitalTV), HDTV is a format. Now a total of 18 digital TV formats, and by definition is divided into standard-definition television (SDTV), enhanced definition TV (EDTV) and high definition television (HDTV). In other words, HDTV is digital television (DTV) standards in the most advanced one.

Set-top box: (SetTopBox) generalized, all television connectivity network terminal device can be called set-top box. US General says digital TV set-top box's main function is to receive the digital TV signal is converted to an analog TV signal, so that users do not have to replace the TV set to watch digital TV programs, image quality close to 500 lines horizontal. In other words, the set-top box is a proof of your TV see the real digital signal that can only be read by the digital signals into analog signals.