Nit

A Nit is another term for one candela per square meter (cd/m2), which is the SI (International System of Units) base unit for measuring luminance. In the display monitor industry, it is used to measure the brightness of the surface… Read more »

What is NTSC? Short for National Television System Committee, NTSC is the American committee responsible for creating technological television and video standards, including refresh rate and color capabilities. NTSC Composite Video is the standard for analog color televisions.

What is PAL? Short for Phase Alternating Line, PAL is the dominant television standard used across Europe. Pal delivers 625 lines of resolution, interlaced at 50 half-frames per second (25 Frames per second).

What is display persistence? Display persistence is amount of time it takes for the phosphor in a CRT display to lose all of its charge. The longer the persistence, the less flicker there is. However, long-persistence phosphors exhibit ‘ghosting’ with… Read more »

What is PGA? Short for Professional Graphics Adapter. PGA was an early video standard developed by IBM that supports up to 640×400 resolution.

What is PPI? Short for Pixels Per Inch, PPI is the numbers of pixels per inch that comprises a pixel image. Also called ‘dots per inch’, PPI is a measurement of display device’s resolution capability. The more pixels per inch… Read more »

What is resolution? The term commonly used to describe the image quality of a printer or monitor. In monitors, the resolution is measured by the number of pixels in a given area, or the number of horizontal pixels X number… Read more »

What are RGB monitors? RGB Monitors are computer monitors that use three distinct video signals (red, green, blue) to generate the colors displayed on the monitor screen.

Red Green Blue Intensity (RGBI) is the technology used to generate a 16-color image on early digital-input computer monitors. 16-colors are created by the addition of an intensity bit to the digital signals controlling the three primary colors, red, blue,… Read more »

What is RS-170? RS-170 was the original black-and-white television signal standard defined by the EIA (Electronics Industries Association). The RS-170 video standard specifies the timing and signal characteristic of broadcast video in the United States, Japan, and several other markets.… Read more »

RS-170 RGB refers to RGB signals timed to RS-170 specifications. In RS-170 RGB, the red, green and blue signals are actually three individual monochrome signals representing their respective red, green, and blue colors which conform to the RS-170 video format,… Read more »

What is a RS-170A (NTSC Color Video)? Twenty years after the drafting of RS-170, the EIA video signal standards committee proposed the RS-170A color video standard, which evolved into what is known today as the NTSC composite video signal standard.… Read more »