| CRT
cathode-raytube |
| The
tube of a television or monitor in which rays of electrons are beamed
onto a phosphorescent screen to produce image |
| Horizontal
Vertical Scan |
| The
frequency in KHz at which the monitor is scanned in a horizontal/
vertical direction. High horizontal scan rates produce higher resolution |
| Interlaced |
| A method
of scanning a screen which results in the alternate lines being drawn
with each full pass of the electron beam |
| LCD
liquid crystal display
|
A
display technology that relies on polarizing filters
and
liquid
crystal cells rather than phosphors
illuminated by
electron
beams to produce an on-screenimage. To control the intensity of the
red, green, and blue dots that comprise pixels, an LCD's control
circuitry applies varying charges to the liquid-crystal cells
through which polarized light passes on its way to the screen. The
amount of light that makes it through to the screen depends on the
amount of charge applied to the corresponding cell and thus the degree
to which the light is "twisted" before it passes through a second
polarizing filter and a red, green, or blue color mask. |
| MDA
Monochrome Display Adapter |
| Black and white
display |
| MCGA
MultiColor Graphics Array
|
320 pixels
across by 200 pixels down with 256 colors out of a possible
262144 |
| Mickey |
| A
Mickey is
a
unit of measurement typically set at 1 /200th of an inch. It
is
commonly used to designate the shortest distance that a mouse cursor
can travel on the video display tube. |
| NTSC
National
Television Standard Committee |
An American
body which gave its
name to the television systems
used In the US |
| Palette |
| The range
of colors from which you select the actual colors the video adapter
will display simultaneously |
| PAL
Phase-alternating line |
| The television
standard used in the UK and most of Europe, except France. |
| Pixel |
A single
dot on a CRT display.
The word is derived from PICture
and Element |
| Future
Connector |
| The
set of
end-connectors on the top of your VGA card used by Graphics adapters to
give compatibility with VGA text and graphics codes for use with
multi-media applications |
| Refresh Rate |
| Vertical
scan rate (in Hz), the speed at which a screen is repainted. Color
displays must be refreshed 60 times per second. The faster the refresh
rate, the less flicker a monitor has. |
| VGA
Video Graphics Array |
| An analogue
graphics
standard introduced with the IBM PS/2 series. |
| VRAM
Video Random Access Memory
|
| for
displaying and caching video information on a video card |
| BIT |
| The
number of bits which represent each pixel on screen. An 8 bits per
pixel (bpp) card can generate 256 colours, and 24 bpp yields 16.8
million colors. |
