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Display Interfaces

The Impact of Digital Television and HDTV (Display Interfaces) Part 3

Digital Television Encoding and Transmission One of the major benefits of using digital encoding for video transmission is that it can serve to completely decouple the image source, processing, transmission, and decoding and display processes. In the original analog TV systems, all of these are maintained in precise lock-step synchronization; the signal timing and the […]

New Displays, New Applications, and New Interfaces Part 1

Introduction Throughout this topic, we have examined the development of both display technology and display interfaces from their early beginning to the current state of the industry. We should not, of course, expect the current state of affairs to represent the ultimate end of display development, and so it is reasonable at this point to […]

New Displays, New Applications, and New Interfaces Part 2

The Intelligent Display – DPVL and Beyond In each of the applications examined so far, it has been noted that an additional measure of “intelligence,” of information processing capability, has been required of the display or interface over the traditional display device. The support of higher resolutions requires support for compression and decompression, if unreasonably […]

Glossary (Display Interfaces)

Active-Matrix A drive technique used to high brightness and/or contrast ratio in high information content display panels, by placing an active element at each pixel in the array. The most common type of active-matrix display is based on a technology known as thin-film transistor, or TFT. The two terms, active matrix and TFT, are often […]

On-Line Resources (Display Interfaces)

“Online” or “net” resources are becoming more and more important to the overall exchange of technical information in today’s world, and while certainly not (yet) at the point where such resources can be seen as completely replacing print media, information available via the World-Wide Web can be a valuable resource for those studying any technical […]