Glossary for SONIQ Flatpanel TV Products

1080i
The number 1080 stands for 1080 lines of vertical resolution, while the letter i stands for interlaced or non-progressive scan.

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1080P
The number 1080 stands for 1080 lines of vertical resolution, while the letter P stands for progressive scan or non-interlaced.

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10-bit Panel
Each pixel is made of three individual green, red and blue (RGB) subpixels. A display’s electronics control the intensity of each subpixel to mix an overall color for that pixel. The number of discrete levels of intensity with which each subpixel can be varied corresponds to the bit-depth of each subpixel color. A single 8-bit subpixel can produce 256 discrete levels of intensity and a 10-bit subpixel 1024 discrete levels. The combination of variations of intensity levels of individual green, red, and blue subpixels within a single pixel enables the reproduction of (256)^3 = 16,777,216 and (1024)^3 = 1,073,741,824 for 8-bit and 10-bit displays respectively.

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100Hz/ 200Hz
Conventional LCD TVs refresh the entire image at 50Hz. Unfortunately, this may result in perceptible flicker. By doubling the number of displayed frames, Quick-Motion 100Hz/200Hz reduces blur and judder and makes fast-moving scenes appear smoother, sharper and clearer.

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24P Film Mode
Conventional televisions operate at 50Hz, film-makers record their films onto Blu-Ray Disc™ using 24Hz (24P). With 24P Film Mode, your SONIQ TV will automatically perceive these films and select the correct format to delivering film-like motion characteristic for you.

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3D Comb Filter
In signal processing, a comb filter adds a slightly delayed version of a signal to itself, causing phase cancellations. The frequency response of a comb filter consists of a series of regularly spaced spikes, so that it looks like a comb.

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3D Television
A 3D television (3D-TV) is a television set that employs techniques of 3D presentation, a 3D display — a special viewing device to project a television program into a realistic three-dimensional field. There are several techniques to produce and display 3D moving pictures. The basic requirement is to display offset images that are filtered separately to the left and right eye.

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576i
The i stands for interlaced or non-progressive scan, i.e. interlaced, while the 576 denotes a vertical resolution of 576 lines.

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720P
The number 720 stands for 720 lines of vertical resolution, while the letter P stands for progressive scan or non-interlaced.

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ACE
Advanced Color Engine (ACE) automatic picture enhancement gives:
Brilliant and fresh color; Intensified contrast and details; Vivid skin tone;
Sharp edge; Enhanced depth of field perception; Accurate and independent color control. ACE-3 mean 3rd Generation Advanced Color Engine.

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Analog component video
Analog video signals (also called Component Cables) must provide red, green and blue signals to create a television image. The simplest type consists of the three discrete red, green and blue signals sent down three coaxial cables. There are a number of schemes which vary according to how synchronization is handled. If a synchronization signal is sent on the green channel, it is called sync-on-green.

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Analog TV
Today's TV system using radio frequency waves to transmit and display pictures and sound.
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Analog TV Tuner
Analog TV tuner will pick out specific channels by specifically concentrating on a specific MHz range of a large broadcast band. By focusing on a specific range it can pick up the video portion of a station in one section and the audio portion in another. It is not possible to transmit high definition via analog signal due to limitations on how much information can be sent with in a given time frame. Analog signals will no longer be used via Antenna. Australia will turn off analog signals between 2010 and 2013, region by region. Instead all antenna transmissions with be Digital.

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Aspect Ratio
Aspect ratio refers to the images height vs. the images width. The current industry standards for this are 4:3 which square and 16:9 which is more of a horizontal rectangle shape. Most all television broadcasts are 4:3 except for high definition broadcasts. Due to the resolutions required for high definition it will always be broadcast in 16:9.

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Brightness
The amount of light emitted from the display, measure in candela per square meter.

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Cables Included
The in-package cables that are included within a given HDTV from SONIQ. Cables included could comprise power cords, or other connective cables.

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Certifications
Certification applications obtained for various SONIQ products demonstrating compliance to electrical standards. Some certifications include SAA (Electrical Product Safety Approval Certification), C-Tick (Compliance with the Australian EMC regulations). MEPS (Minimum Energy Performance Standards). DSO (Digital Switch Over or Digital ready).

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Class
"Class" refers to the general size scheme given at the time of product marketing. While the industry conforms to standards such as 32" or 42" televisions, these sizes are commonly referred to 32" Class or 42" Class of HDTV's.

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Closed Caption (CC) or Sub-Title
Closed captioning (CC) allows deaf and hard of hearing / hearing-impaired people, people learning English as an additional language, people first learning how to read, people in a noisy environment, and others to read a transcript or dialogue of the audio portion of a video, film, or other presentation. As the video plays, text captions are displayed that transcribe, although not always verbatim, what is said and by whom and indicate other relevant sounds.

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Coaxial Port
Coaxial port is a digital audio interface used in consumer audio equipment over relatively short distances. The signal is transmitted over a coaxial cable with RCA connector.

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Color Depth
Color depth is used to describe the number of bits used in a single pixel to make up a color. The more bits per the pixel the better the transition from one color to another and help detail different shades of a specific color that are adjacent to one another.

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Color Temperature
The NTSC and PAL TV norms call for a compliant TV screen to display an electrically "black-and-white" signal (minimal color saturation) at a color temperature of 6500K. On many actual sets however, especially older and/or cheaper ones, there is a very noticeable deviation from this requirement of the standard.

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Contrast Ratio
The contrast ratio is a metric of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminosity of the brightest and the darkest color the system is capable of producing. High contrast ratio is a desired aspect of any display, but with the various methods of measurement for a system or its part, remarkably different values can be measured of the same subject.

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CVBS
Composite video is the format of an analog television (picture only) signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF carrier. It is usually in a standard format such as NTSC, PAL, or SECAM. It is a composite of three source signals called Y, U and V (together referred to as YUV) with sync pulses. Y represents the brightness or luminance of the picture and includes synchronizing pulses, so that by itself it could be displayed as a monochrome picture. U and V between them carry the color information. They are first mixed with two orthogonal phases of a color carrier signal to form a signal called the chrominance. Y and UV are then added together. Since Y is a baseband signal and UV has been mixed with a carrier, this addition is equivalent to frequency-division multiplexing.

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Diagonal Size
Referred also to "Diagonal Viewing Area", the diagonal size is the size of the screen measured in inches. This would be measured from the bottom left corner to the upper right corner of the screen itself.

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Digital component video
The digital component video is sometimes referred to as 4:2:2. This means that for every 4 pixels of luminance (Y) information, only 2 pixels of Pb (Blue Difference), and 2 pixels of Pr (Red difference) are encoded. This is the scheme used for the DVD format. The numbers also represent the relative number of bits (but not the actual number) used to carry the three pieces of information at each pixel. The color information is spread across the pixels it represents.

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Digital TV (DTV)
Television delivered and displayed using radio frequency waves that contain information that is digitally encoded for improved quality and efficiency.

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Digital Ready labels
The Australian Government has developed a product-labelling scheme to help Australian switch to digital TV.
This label indicates that this TV, set top box or digital TV recorder can receive all high definition and standard definition digital TV channels.
All SONIQ TV products have this Digital Ready label.

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Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video interface standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It was developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).

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Dimensions
These are the physical dimensions of a product. Height (H) refers to the total physical height of a product. Width (W) refers to the total physical width of a product. Depth (D) refers to the total depth of a product.. Please use these dimensions as a guide and allow for additional space around your new SONIQ. This helps insure adequate ventilation to the precision electronic devices inside.

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DivX Plus HD
was launched in 2009 and is the brand name for the file type that DivX, Inc. has chosen for their high definition video format. DivX Plus HD files consist of high definition H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video with surround sound Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio, wrapped up in the open-standard Matroska container, identified by the .mkv file extension. DivX Plus HD files leverage and extend on Matroska's ability to support multiple language tracks, subtitles, chapters, and additional bonus content.

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DivX Plus Player
Play DivX 6 files (.avi and .divx with MP3 audio) and DivX Plus HD (.mkv with AAC audio).

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H.264
H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is a standard for video compression. H.264 is perhaps best known as being one of the codec standards for Blu-ray Discs; all Blu-ray players must be able to decode H.264.

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DVB-T
DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. DVB-T has been adopted or proposed for digital television broadcasting by many countries. Australian uses 7MHz channels.

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HDTV
High-Definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. HDTV is broadcast digitally, and therefore its introduction sometimes coincides with the introduction of digital television (DTV). In the DVB-T broadcast standard used in the Australia resolution with 720 or more active lines is considered HDTV.

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HDTV Ready
An HDTV Ready device is immediately capable of receiving and displaying any high-definition signal sent to it.

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HDCP
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a form of digital rights management (DRM) developed by the Intel Corporation to control digital audio and video content as it travels across Digital Visual Interface (DVI) or High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connections. The HDCP specification is proprietary and an implementation of HDCP requires a license.

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HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is an industry-supported, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface.
In the box contents
We include a television with each SONIQ purchase. In addition to the television, in-the-box contents could include remote controls, power cord, user manual, quick start guide, warranty card. The additional contents vary by model.

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Inputs
Inputs include: HDMI, Component, Composite, S-Video, Antenna socket, USB , PC VGA, PC Sound.

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IPS
In-plane switching is an LCD technology which aligns the liquid crystal cells in a horizontal direction. In this method, the electrical field is applied through each end of the crystal, but this requires two transistors for each pixel instead of the single transistor needed for a standard thin-film transistor (TFT) display. Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight, which consumed more power, and made this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

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LCD
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is a thin, flat electronic visual display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals.
LED-backlit LCD TV
An LED-backlight LCD TV is an LCD TV that uses LED backlighting instead of the cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) used in traditional LCD televisions. It is not a true LED display but is called "LED TV" by some manufacturers. The use of LED backlighting has a dramatic impact, resulting in a thinner panel, less power consumption and heat dissipation, and a brighter display with better contrast levels.

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MaxxBass™
Patented Waves MaxxBass™ psycho-acoustic bass extension delivers a more natural sound than traditional bass boost technologies, which use EQ and can overpower your system. MaxxBass™ analyzes low frequencies to create harmonics which are perceived as lower, deeper tones.

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MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is typically used to encode audio and video for broadcast signals, including direct broadcast satellite and Cable TV. MPEG-2, with some modifications, is also the coding format used by standard commercial DVD movies.

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PAL
Phase Alternating Line, is an analog color television encoding system used in broadcast television systems in Australia and many countries.

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Parental lock
Parental Lock used for a feature of television receivers allowing the blocking of programs based on their ratings category. It is intended for use by parents to manage their children's television viewing. All digital televisions manufactured for the Australia market since 4 February 2011 must offer a parental lock feature under a technical standard determined by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

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Pixel Dot Pitch
Pixel/Dot Pitch is a specification for a television display panel describing the distance between LCD/PDP cells or pixels of the same color.

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Progressive Scan
Progressive or non-interlaced scanning is any method for displaying, storing or transmitting moving images in which the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence.

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PDP
Plasma Display Panel is a type of flat panel display common to large TV displays. They are called "plasma" displays because the technology utilizes small cells containing electrically charged ionized gases, or what are in essence chambers more commonly known as fluorescent lamps.
Produces deep blacks allowing for superior contrast ratio
PDP Advantages: Much wider viewing angles than those of LCD; images do not suffer from degradation at high angles unlike LCDs. Less susceptible to reflection glare in bright rooms due to not needing backlighting. No visible motion blur, thanks in large part to very high refresh rates and a faster response time, contributing to superior performance when displaying content with significant amounts of rapid motion.

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PVR or DVR
A personal video recorder (PVR) or digital video recorder (DVR) is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other local or networked mass storage device.

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QAM Demodulation
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is a modulation scheme which conveys data by changing (modulating) the amplitude of two carrier waves. These two waves, usually sinusoids, are out of phase with each other by 90° and are thus called quadrature carriers - hence the name of the scheme.

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Resolution
Applies to fixed-pixel-array displays such as flat-panel plasmas (PDPs), LCDs, front and rear projectors using LCD, DLP or similar technologies and is simply the physical number of columns and rows of pixels creating the display (eg, 720x576; 1368x768; 1920x1080 etc).

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Response Time
Response time is a measurement whereby how quickly a pixel can change colors. Typically listed in milliseconds (ms), the faster the response time (listed as a lower value ms response time) the smoother the image will appear.

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Series
Series is the broad category name given to similar products with similar features within the SONIQ TV product line. SONIQ LED LCD TV "Z” series for example will consist of the same general cosmetic appearance while size differences between each model within the series will exist. Specifications may also vary within a product series.

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Stand
Each SONIQ television comes with a stand. The stand allows for stable placement of the television. In most cases, on SONIQ televisions, the stand is removable for wall mounting purposes. When removing the stand, please refer to the documentation instructions on removal. Please keep all necessary hardware after removal.

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Supported PC Resolutions
Those resolutions supported through the TV PC VGA port on your SONIQ. Sample supported resolutions such as 1920 x 1080, 1366 x 768, 1024 x 768, 800 x 600 indicate PC resolutions that can be displayed on your SONIQ television.

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Time Shift Record
Time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to at a time more convenient to you. The advent of the personal video recorder (PVR) has made time shifting easier, by using an electronic program guide (EPG) and recording TV shows onto a USB flash drive or a hard disk.

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USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller. USB can connect flash drives, USB hard disk. USB 2.0 has higher maximum bandwidth of 480 Mbit/s.

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Viewing Angle
Viewing angle listed in the Horizontal and Vertical values is the deepest viewing angle possible of a given flat panel television.

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Voltage Range
Voltage range is that range approved for use with your SONIQ television. Use of voltage exceeding or lower than that approved for use could result in damage of your equipment and is not covered by warranty.

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Weight
This is the approximate weight of the product expressed in kilogram (kg). Gross Weight will consist of the product and product packaging together. Net weight will consist of the weight of the television only.

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Widescreen
A widescreen image is a film or television image with a wider aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the classical Hollywood cinema era.

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YCbCr
YCbCr is a family of color spaces used in video systems. Y is the luma component and Cb and Cr the chroma components. It is often confused with the YUV color space, and typically the terms YCbCr and YUV are used interchangeably, leading to confusion. In fact, when referring to signals in digital form, the term "YUV" probably really means "YCbCr" more often than not. YCbCr is sometimes abbreviated to YCC.

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YPbPr
YPbPr (also referred to as "YPrPb", "PrPbY", and "PbPrY") is a color space used in video electronics. It is numerically equivalent to the YCbCr color space, but is designed for use in analogue systems whereas YCbCr is intended for digital video.