Acronyms
A common practice on projects where an client purchases equipment directly from a supplier and provides them to be installed by the contractor.
OFE - “Owner-Furnished Equipment”
Vodka and orange juice served with ice
Screwdriver
Known to many technicians as the go-to audio test
Mr Scruff - "Kalimba" was featured on this album
Ninja Tuna
Not to be confused with the car rental company, this unit for measuring frequency equals one cycle per second.
Hertz
Referring to the internet, a central network that provides a pathway for other networks to communicate, This is also believed to be something that consultants are missing.
Backbone
A form of copy protection (scrambling of signals) that prevents copying of audio & video content as it travels across cables or connections.
HDCP – “High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection"
Performers who remove their clothing while they dance.
Strippers
Dante
The most basic unit of an image displayed on a computer or video display screen. Short for Picture Element, Most people only pay attention to them when they are dead.
Pixel
Event that occurs when one network device expects to hear from another network device within a specified period of time, but does not. Also this is where most AV Technicians spent their childhood.
Time-out
An uncompressed digital connector providing an interface between 8-channel digital audio and HDTV standards.
HDMI – “High-Definition Multimedia Interface”
A person who illicitly uses methamphetamine
Tweaker
Known for their microphones and ceiling arrays, this company's name is also commonly heard as sales reps respond to a client's request for something impossible.
Shure
A picture condition in which groups of horizontal lines are displaced in an irregular manner, this can also happen to your pants if you eat too many donuts.
Tearing
Not your late-night Grub delivery service, this term is used to describe a device that serves as the center of a star-topology network.
Hub
A polymer or other organic substance used as a semiconductor in an LED
OLED – “organic light-emitting diode”
Used by a stylist to turn usually straight, long hair into wavy zig-zags
Crimper
The maximum amplitude of a voltage or current, also what most AV technicians never did in High School.
Peak
The colorfulness of an area judged in proportion to its brightness, This is often times the first adjustment made to a picture by anyone over the age of 65.
Saturation
Router or access server designated as a buffer between any connected public networks and a private network. Bad breath can function in a similar fashion for humans.
Firewall
A consumer electronic and commercial connectivity standard for transmission of uncompressed high-definition video, audio, power, home networking, Ethernet, USB, and some control signals, over a common category cable using the same modular connectors used by Ethernet.
HDBaseT
These barriers are used to regulate or hold back water from a river, lake, or even the ocean.
Dykes
Goth, Emo and Punk considered, this refers to the timing relationship of two or more signals or soundwaves
Phase
The portion of a composite picture signal that lies between the leading edge of the horizontal blanking pulse and the leading edge of the corresponding sync pulse, this is also where amazon leaves your packages.
Front Porch
Node or software program (front-end device) that requests services from a server. They are always right and never satisfied.
Client