Matrox orion HD, Installation And Hardware Manual

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• NTSC
National Television System Committee . An analog interlaced color video format
standard, typically at 640 pixels x 480 lines (square pixels) or
720 pixels x 486 lines (non-square pixels) resolution, used in North America and
most of South America. In NTSC, 30 frames are transmitted each second. Each
frame is made up of 525 individual scan lines (rows). While NTSC has a total of
525 lines, only 480 of these are used for the image data.
• PAL
Phase Alternating Line . An analog interlaced color video format standard, typically
at 768 pixels x 576 lines (square pixels) or 720 pixels x 576 lines (non-square
pixels) resolution, mostly used in Europe. In PAL, 25 frames are transmitted each
second. Each frame is made up of 625 individual scan lines (rows). While PAL
has a total of 625 lines, only 576 of these are used for the image data.
• PCIe
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express . The standard used for the computer
bus that acts as an interface between hardware devices, such as Matrox Orion HD,
and your computer.
• RGB
A color space that represents color using the colors red, green, and blue as
components.
• SDI
Serial Digital Interface . A standard for digital video transmission over a coaxial
cable.
• Serializer
A device that takes parallel data, such as an 8-bit signal, and converts it into a serial
stream for transmission on a serial link.