Pan and scan — is one method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown within the proportions of a standard definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the… … Wikipedia
Slow-scan television — (SSTV) is a picture transmission method used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color.A technical term for SSTV is narrowband television. Broadcast television requires huge 5, 6… … Wikipedia
List of Foxtel channels — Below is a list of channels on the Foxtel Digital Service. Some channels are not available to all subscribers depending on whether they use Cable, Satellite or a special Education or Business package.EntertainmentportsKids and FamilyFoxtel Box… … Wikipedia
Digital television transition in the United States — Further information: Digital television transition The DTV (an abbreviation of digital television, also called digital broadcast) transition in the United States was the switchover from analog (the traditional method of transmitting television… … Wikipedia
InterVideo WinDVR — is a commercial digital video recorder (DVR) software package for Windows operating systems. It lets you watch and record TV shows on the PC by allowing it to work as a TV set and a DVR at the same time. It requires that the host PC have a… … Wikipedia
Motorola Minitor — Front view of the Minitor V pager. The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and paid) to alert of emergencies. The Minitor, slightly smaller than a… … Wikipedia
Distributed transmission system — This article is about terrestrial broadcasting. For electrical power distribution, see distributed generation. In North American digital terrestrial television broadcasting, a distributed transmission system (DTS or DTx) is a form of single… … Wikipedia
channel surf — verb To quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control. I channel surfed for half an hour before deciding nothing worth watching was on television … Wiktionary
сканирование каналов — Процедура проверки состояния каналов связи с точки зрения их пригодности для передачи информации. Обычно при этом измеряется уровень шумов, присутствующих на входе приемника, или определяется текущее отношение сигнал/помеха. [Л.М. Невдяев.… … Справочник технического переводчика
Two-way radio — receiver which only receives content. Two way radios are available in mobile, stationary base and hand held portable configurations. Hand held radios are often called walkie talkies or handie talkies. A push to talk or Press To Transmit button is … Wikipedia
FTA receiver — A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver A free to air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG 2/DVB S and more recently the MPEG 4/DVB S2 standard… … Wikipedia
