Entertainment

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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digital monitor

Entertainment; TV

Digital monitors are TV sets that can display a digital signal, but lack an integrated tuner (unlike an integrated digital TV set), and thus cannot receive a digital broadcast ...

digital signal

Entertainment; TV

A signal that takes on only two values — off or on — typically represented by "0" or "1." Digital signals require less power but typically more bandwidth than analog, and copies ...

digital tuner

Entertainment; TV

A digital tuner serves as the decoder required to receive and display digital broadcasts. It can be included inside a TV set or in a set-top box.

DMA

Entertainment; TV

Designated Market Area. A term used by Nielsen Media Research to identify an exclusive geographic area of counties in which the home market television stations hold a dominance of ...

Dolby® Digital

Entertainment; TV

A form of multi-channel digital sound, it provides efficient encoding and noise reduction for high-quality surround sound — technology used in movie theaters and upscale home ...

downconvert

Entertainment; TV

A process by which a high-resolution signal is reduced to a lower resolution for display. Usually, extra lines are simply ignored when drawing the lower resolution image; however, ...

DTV

Entertainment; TV

Digital Television. An advanced broadcasting technology that uses radio frequency (RF) to transmit computer code and display it as pictures and sound. DTV is the umbrella term ...