Language & Search

See picture tube coating.

Easiest way to explain aspect ratio is to say that it means the ratio between the width of the picture and the height of the picture. Normal TV's aspect ratio is 4:3 (1.33:1), HDTV's aspect ratio is 16:9 (1.85:1) and CinemaScope movies' aspect ratio is 2.35:1

Inking of the phosphorous coating in order to offer the highest possible contrast at the impact of the beam.

Signal line for coaxial cables. The BNC-line contains 5 sockets. The BNC-cables to be used for this line consist of 5 individually shielded wires for the colours red, green and blue and for the horizontal and vertical sychronisation. They were developed to reduce failures by the cable itself as well as external failures to the lowest possible degree. 

Function in OSD to adjust the three colours red, green and blue.

Function in OSD to adjust the colour temperature in Kelvin. 9300 Kelvin is the standard for computer monitors.

please refer to Plug & Play

Since picture tubes are influenced by magnetic fields of all kinds, the tube can be demagnetised at any time via this function.

Dolby Digital (AC-3) is Dolby's third generation audio coding algorithm. It is a perceptual coding algorithm developed to allow the use of lower data rates with a minimum of perceived degration of sound quality.

This coder has been designed to take maximum advantage of human auditory masking in that it divides the audio spectrum of each channel into narrow frequency bands of different sizes optimized with respect to the frequency selectivity of human hearing. This makes it possible to sharply filter coding noise so that it is forced to stay very close in frequency to the frequency components of the audio signal being coded. By reducing or eliminating coding noise wherever there are no audio signals to mask it, the sound quality of the original signal can be subjectively preserved. In this key respect, a coding system like AC-3 is essentially a form of very selective and powerful noise reduction.

In the consumer electronics industry the Dolby Digital soundtrack can be found on the latest generation of LaserDiscs (in space where one of the analog tracks used to be), can be found as the standard audio track on Digital Versatile Discs (DVD), is the standard audio format for High Definition Television (HDTV), and is being used for digital cable and satellite transmissions.

The pitch from the centre of a phosphor dot to the centre of the next phosphor dot of the same colour. The dot pitch is indicated diagonally for shadow masks and horizontally for strip/slit masks.

Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry organization that develops technologies for the digital TV.

The three most widely used DVB's transmission protocols are DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T. All of these digital platforms are widely used, although mostly in Europe.

DVB developes not just transmission protocols, but also interactive standards for digital TV set-top boxes, etc. Various other DVB's protocols include MHP (multimedia home platform, also dubbed as DVB-MHP), DVB-M (standard for measuring DVB-S/T/C transmissions, etc), DVB-H (an "upgrade" of DVB-T standard that would allow using terrestial network to deliver DVB-T digital stream to mobile devices), etc.

DVB-C is an acronym for Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable and means basically the (mostly used in Europe) digital TV broadcasting method that's done via digital cable networks.

Other digital TV broadcasting technologies developed by the DVB Project are DVB-T and DVB-S.

DVB-T is an acronym for Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestial and means basically the (mostly used in Europe) digital TV broadcasting method that's done via terrestial networks -- normally existing analogue TV antennas are used to receive the transmissions.

Other digital TV broadcasting technologies developed by the DVB Project are DVB-S and DVB-C.

DVI, Digital Video Interface, is a specification created by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).

The DVI specification has created an uniform connector that can accommodate both, digital and analog video signal. DVI has three subsets: DVI-A, for analog signals, DVI-D, for digital signals, and DVI-I (integrated), for both analog and digital signals.

DVI-I stands for Digital Video Interface - Integrated and means a DVI connector that can transmit both analog and digital video data.

Swiss standard to reduce current consumption of screens in the off-mode.

Norm for reducing the power input while the screen is offline.

Das GS-Zeichen (Geprüfte Sicherheit) spricht dem Produkt elektrische und mechanische Sicherheit (z.B. Brandschutz) zu. Es bestätigt außerdem, dass die Sicherheitsregeln für Bildschirmarbeitsplätze der Berufsgenossenschaft eingehalten werden. 

Refers to a TV set that accepts baseband video in one or more of the high definition formats, displays a picture using one or more of the high definition video formats, but which does not have a tuner (channel selector) to receive HDTV signals off the air or from a cable system.

Function in the OSD to rotate the image.

Liquid Crystal Display

ex works/user defined: memories are programmed ex works in order to guarantee the optimum pre-set picture when the monitor is switched on for the first time. Every user can store his own (user-defined) settings. Moiré

Undulating pattern, mainly occurring against a grey background. Can be corrected via the corresponding function in OSD.

Please see MPR II, TCO95, TCO99, GEA-Label.

Recommendation for low frequency magnetic and electric fields and the electrostatic potential, issued by the National Swedish Measuring and Test Authorities. 

The beam writes a line at every run without interlacing (opposite: interlaced).

Color TV standard developed in the U.S. in 1953 by National Television System Committee. NTSC is used in United States, Canada, Japan, in most of the American continent countries and in various Asian countries. Rest of the world uses either some variety of PAL or SECAM standards.

NTSC runs on 525 lines/frame and it's vertical frequency is 60Hz. NTSC's framerate is 29,97 frames/sec

On-Screen-Display. Menu for the visual presentation of monitor functions and adjustments.

PAL (Phase Alternating Line) TV standard was introduced in the early 1960's in Europe. It has better resolution than in NTSC, having 625 lines/frame, but the framerate is slightly lower, being 25 frames/sec.

PAL is used in most of the western European countries (except France, where SECAM is used instead), Australia, some countries of Africa, some countries of South America and in some Asian countries.

There are various versions of PAL, most commonly used method is called PAL B/G, but others include PAL I (used in the UK and in Ireland) and PAL M (weird hybrid standard, which has the same resolution as NTSC has, but uses PAL transmission and color coding technology anyway). All of these standards normally work nicely together, but audio frequencies might vary and therefor you should check that your appliances work in the country you're planning to use them (older PAL B/G TVs can't decode UK's PAL I audio transmissions even that the picture works nicely).

Functions in OSD to correct parallelogram distortions.

The picture tubes of all Belinea monitors are covered with an anti-reflective and anti-static coating. By this coating glare and reflections are reduced to a minimum. The anti-static coating furthermore prevents pollution.

Picture deflects inwardly to the right and left. Can be corrected in OSD via the corresponding function.

Plug & Play

Monitors, equipped with this function, are independently recognised in Windows 95/98. This function is not available if you are using the BNC-lines of your monitor.

The refresh rate indicates, how often a picture is newly presented each second (for example 85 Hs = 85 pictures per second).

The time a system or functional unit needs to react to give input.

Number of pixels forming a picture. Is indicated as number of pixels multiplied by the number of picture lines (for example: 1280 x 1024 = 1,31 million).

Space between the opposite corners of the screen. One distinguishes between the total, which describes the size of the picture tube in inches and the visible, which is indicated in cm.

SECAM (Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire or Sequential Colour with Memory (or System Even Crappier than the American Method ;-)) color TV standard was introduced in the early 1960's and implemented in France.

SECAM uses the same bandwidth as PAL but transmits the colour information sequentially. SECAM runs on 625 lines/frame with the same framerate as the PAL does, 25fps.

SECAM is used in France, former French colonies and in former communist countries in Europe.

Because of its similiarity with PAL (same resolution, same framerate), all of the modern video systems, such as DVD, VCD and SuperVHS use PAL internally (for storing the data in the storage media, etc) and just change the color encoding to SECAM when outputting the signal back to SECAM TV.

A metal or ceramic disk with a number of holes through which the beam is led in order to hit the correct point of the phosphor coated glass.

Abbreviation for the Swedish employees union: Tjänstemännens Central Organisation.

Swedish standard, including the TCO 1992, dealing with ergonomic quality, emissions (for example electric and magnetic fields, generation of noise and heat), energy saving and ecology, with environment-related demands of the product and its production process.

The latest edition of TCO, with increased regulations for energy consumption, ergonomics and image quality. In addition to the latter more practice-orientated settings are used for measurement of the radiation fields.

Function in OSD to correct trapezium distortions.