dynode effect - attenuation in image orthicon

"eye of the fly" lens - 3d device that produces vertical element...

fishbowl - room for VIPs...

"fantasy" decoder - integrate audio frequency to video frequency...

H.261 - standard video conferencing on telephone...

H.26L - next generation of video compression MPEG4 - Layer 10

halation - produces white spots on CRT face

channel 3 - all channels are based...

electroluminescence - conversion of electrical energy to light...

final or last mile - electronic equipment from downlink to receiver...

first mile - electronic equipment from original source to uplink...

rabbit ears - TV antenna receiver

anti-comet tail gun - comet correction...

anti-piracy signal - coding technique use to prevent piracy...

Europium - element used on the red phosphor element of the CRT...

BW efficiency (Information density) - ratio of bandwidth to RF...

MC34133 - high impedance electret microphone

electret microphone - high sensitivity and has built-in power supply...

tandem - connection of two central offices...

tie trunk - local loop to office...

hard line - coaxial cable that uses long metal as its shielding instead of braided
metal...

GIF - Graphic Interchange Format

backward compatibility - adaptation of new systems to older version...

55:1 - compression of firewire...

class 5 - local office

imager - device that converts optical image to electrical signal

EBICON - Electron Bombardment Induced Conductivity

SLIC - Subscriber Line Interface Card

anomalous propagation - RF that propagated caused by low temperature on low

pressure
graticule - CRT pattern of lines

granularity - measure of pixels...

linear coding - common type of coding...

Slow-scan TV - used in still-motion pictures...

Firewire - IEEE1394, 1.6 Gbps

Alfecon - tape head that uses Iron, Aluminum and Silicon

Voip disadvantage - time delay

roamer - mobile user that is outside his/her home area...

60ms - standard pulse dialing in the US

anti-tinkler - prevent phone from ringing...

display - not a part of a conventional analog phone...

purpose of bridge rectifier circuit on a local loop - prevent phase or polarity

reversal...

prevent overloading - zener diode

B-ISDN - 1.5 Mbps

flyway - satellite earth station that provides to areas not covered by the
satellite...

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line/Loop) - uses the conventional telephone wire for data
transmission...

Burst separator - on during horizontal flyback...

Tint - varies the phase angle of the video signal...

electronicam - first in US TV, cameras...

demodulator probe - increase bandwidth, amplify signal...

H.324 - video in telephone line...

H.320 - international...

H.261 and H.263

fantastron - in radar, multivibrator...

1956 - 1st 3-D theatre...

DECT AMPS in US 1850-1910 MHz

V.22,V.33,V.33bis - 14kbps - 16 kbps

IF converter up-down - 612.25 MHz

acoustic holography - produce a hologram image with sound as the vertical
element...

BCH (Bose-Chadhauri-Hoquegem) - coding with wide range of parameter...

stereoscopic photography - method of generating 3-D...

Anaglyph images - 1st method of representing theatrical 3-D

Jurassic Park - 1st to use Dolby Digital...

Bwana Devil - 1st stereophonic film...

1985 - We are born of Stars

Ambiophony - method of adjusting reverberation within a room with the use of

loudspeakers...

72 kbps - Bluetooth data rate

CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) - 19.2 kbps, GMSK

photonic layer - lowest layer of SONET

shape factor - reduce skirt steepness

SMATV - small TV system installed on houses...

11 Mbps - WISPS, Wifi maximum speed...

Aperture - small opening...

chroma test - type 2

SWAP (Shared Wireless Access Protocol) - connectivity of devices..

KDKA - 1st radio station on Pittsburg, Pensylvania

Donald duck effect - sudden change of speed that produces sound...

iDEN - Motorola

3 -50 Mbps - cable TV data rate...

1928 - 1st TV broadcast...

1975 - 1st handheld cellphone...

60 - 300 KHz - new spectrum FDM Basic SuperGroup 1

312 - 360 KHz - new spectrum FDM Basic Group 1

564 - 3084 KHz - new spectrum FDM Basic MasterGroup 1

CMTS - 577us

Dihedral - spacing between tape heads

Koch resistance - resistance of a photodiode from an incident light of an active
surface of the tube...

perveance - maintain electron bombardment on tube face...

screen persistence - continued emission from 1%...

microphonics - caused by musical instruments nearby TV...

15 - 150 MHz - low frequency CATV

1kHz - 299 MHz - medium frequency CATV

300MHz - 50 GHz- high frequency CATV

psychoacoustics - determining the source of sound...

Nut - cost of radio programs, etc...

scophony - abortive attempt to replace the CRT for large screen TV...

4 - 8 times height - distance from TV...

shutter - covers the sensitive part of the TV camera and allows it for desired
use...

FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) - 1000 stations, 120 ft

Pop Filter - protective covering of microphone...

Supertrunk - cable that connects several cables on a system...

Local number portability - retain the old number after changing...

pigtail - couple to other fiber optic cable...

tang - introduces gap losses...

50 mA - typical current of fiber optic

5ms - typical delay of a light detector in fiber optic...

CEPT - E1 - conform to G.703, G.704...

IEC - writes specification in laser

IEC Type 4 laser - can burn, even reflections are hazardous...

IEC Type 2 laser - Visible light...

Halo - dark spots on TV...

tundra orbit - 63.4 degrees highly elliptical orbit...

capture orbit - has escape velocity...

Reed - Solomon - coding, characters are in groups of bits...

VRB - NRT
VRB - RT

- loss of V-sync for anti-piracy...

bezel - surrounding frame that protects the picture tube...

encapsulation uses - edge coding

maintain synchronization - prevent long strings of 1's...

8-VSB - terrestrial broadcasting

PAL B/G - western europe standard

32.28 dB - cable TV

15.72s - time to orbit of ISS...

3.5s - ATM

T.48 - 27 kbps

mating durability - 0.2dB / 1000 matings

satellite - QPSK

5 nm spectral width - LED

3 nm spectral width - ILD

descrambler - for cable TV signals...

image - must be less than 10% of height...