Reference Information
14-2 Samsung Electronics
Digital Broadcast
Digital Broadcast is a television broadcasting signal digitized
and transmitted according to the United States' terrestrial digital
broadcast standard, or ATSC.
Mono
A type of audio interface that transmits audio signals through a
single channel.
Through a mono interface, it is hard to experience stereophonic
sound and sound is played only by one speaker.
Reception Sensitivity Amplification
A signal amplification technique that amplifies weak broadcasting signals by applying satellite technology to provide a better
visual quality even for users in regions where only weak broadcasting signals are available.
Stereo
A type of audio interface that transmits audio signals through 2
channels.
Stereo transmits audio signals for the right and left channels so
that you can experience stereophonic sound, and the sound is
played with 2 speakers.
Analog Broadcast
Analog Broadcast is a television broadcasting signal transmitted according to the NTSC standard.
ANTENNA IN Port
A port to connect the TV aerial using a coaxial cable. It is generally used to watch public broadcast programs.
English Caption
A function that shows English caption or text information included in the broadcasting signal or video tape. You can use this
function to study English by watching AFKN or CC marked
video tapes.
Video/Audio Ports
You may experience poor visual and audio quality when watching a video tape on channel 3 or 4 through the antenna cable.
You can experience better visual and audio quality connecting
the TV and VCR through the Video/Audio ports. The video port
is distinguished by the color yellow, and the audio ports are distinguished by the white (left) and red colors (right).
External Input
External Input is connecting video devices such as a VCR,
camcorder, DTV receiver, DVD, etc. as a video source.
Satellite Broadcast
Satellite Broadcast transmits programs via satellite so that the
broadcast is viable in all areas at a high visual and sound quality. It provides approximately 100 channels including public
broadcast channels. To view satellite broadcast, you have to
install an additional receiver.
Wired Broadcast
Satellite Broadcast refers to movie, entertainment and educational programs transmitted by the broadcasting station in a
hotel or school.
Audio Multimix
Audio Multimix provides 2 languages for audio when broadcasting a foreign movie, drama, news, etc. You can select and listen to one of the supported languages or you can select and
listen to both languages simultaneously.
Component Port (Green, Blue, Red)
The Component Port separately transmits the luminance signal
and provides the best quality of all video connection types.
Cable Broadcast
Cable Broadcast transmits programs via cable instead of radio
wave. To view a cable broadcast, you need to subscribe to your
local cable broadcast service provider and install an additional
receiver.
Tuner
A device that enables selecting a specific frequency for a channel on a TV or radio.
Anynet
Anynet is an AV network system that enables the easy-to-use
AV interface for users by controlling connected AV devices
through the Anynet menu when AV devices of Samsung
Electronics are connected.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)
DVD is a large capacity media that can save multimedia content such as video, game, audio applications, etc. using MPEG2 video compression technology on a CD-sized disc.
S-VIDEO IN Port
This is called super video. S-Video is a type of video signal
which has the video luminance and color signals separated in
order to provide a better visual quality.
VHF/UHF
VHF refers to TV channels 2 to 13, and UHF refers to TV channels 14 to 69.
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