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What is VLC?

VLC is a media Player (VideoLAN client). It supports a lot of video and audio formats and can be installed on both Windows, Mac and Linux. It can also be used as a video ripper or to play videos and DVDs. Click here to download and get more information, or look at the possibilities in the movie below.

What does plasma mean?

Plasma is ionized gas

This term will mainly occur when it comes to verschullende types of television screens. The display of images is done by a plasma screen by a few hundred thousand minuscule luminous dots or pixels. This gives a high resolution and ability to display lots of details. At startup and shutdown make a "clicking" sound (this is due to the temperature differences). Together with the LCD screens plasma is seen as the successor of the classic TV screens with CRT. Read More

What does DVI mean?

DVI stands for Digital Visual interface and is designed as a monitor interface. Uncompressed video signals are forwarded by the cable to the monitor and transmit a full digital signal without any loss of data. A short time, DVI was present on DVD players and projectors, but these have been replaced by HDMI. For PC € ™ s, DVI still remains the most widely used digital video connection. This is because DVI has already supported higher resolutions and framerates that are necessary for computer monitors from the outset.

What does HDMI mean?

HDMI means High Definition multimedia Interface

HDMI is the abbreviation of High Definition multimedia Interface and is the successor to DVI. HDMI is conceived as universal connection for audio, video and operation. This has become a bit of the digital version of SCART. Unlike the DVI predecessor, HDMI supports up to eight digital audio channels. Most modern (from 2005/2006) DVD players, Settop boxes etc are provided VDN HDMI outputs. Also almost all LCD and plasma televisions (also projectors) are equipped with at least 1 HDMI input. Read More

What does GPS mean?

GPS means Global positioning System

GPS is developed by the U.S. Army. It is a system of satellites in permanent orbits around the Earth. Every spot on Earth always sees at least 3 satellites, which are also needed to be able to do a positioning. This is done by means of radio waves and the fact that the position of the satellites is known. Read More

What does podcasting mean?

Podcasting is a radio show in MP3 format

Podcasting was created by merging the popular Apple MP3 player (IPOD) with ' broadcasting '. The technique has nothing to do with the iPod but because of the familiarity of this player the term arose. It is a technique in which podcasters make an MP3 file available on the Internet (via an RSS feed) so iTunes or any other piece of software can retrieve it. Read More