Acronyms
An uncompressed digital connector providing an interface between 8-channel digital audio and HDTV standards.
HDMI – “High-Definition Multimedia Interface”
Vodka and orange juice served with ice
Screwdriver
Dante
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
Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association
What is AVIXA?
Performers who remove their clothing while they dance.
(Wire) Strippers
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
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
High level A/V Certification
What is CTS?
VHS + Math
What is Tape Measure?
The maximum amplitude of a voltage or current, also what most AV technicians never did in High School.
Peak
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 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.(think Red)
HDBaseT
Used by a stylist to turn usually straight, long hair into wavy zig-zags
Crimper
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
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