| Cable TV (CATV) |
A TV system that uses fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via radio waves) in which a television antenna is required... |
| Capacitive Touchscreen |
A capacitive touchscreen panel consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such as indium tin oxide (ITO)... |
| CAT 5 |
Category 5 cable, commonly known as Cat 5 or Cat-5, is an unshielded twisted pair type cable designed for high signal integrity... |
| CAT 5e |
Category 5e cable is an enhanced version of Category 5 that adheres to more stringent standards... |
| CAT 6 |
Category 6 cable, commonly referred to as Cat 6 or Cat-6, is a cable standard designed to perform at frequencies of up to 250 MHz and offers higher performance for better transmission of data at speeds up to 1000 Mbps... |
| CCFL |
A cold cathode is an element used within some nixie tubes, gas discharge lamps, discharge tubes, and vacuum tubes... |
| CEC |
One of the channels in an HDMI connection is dedicated to a set of advanced control functions, collectively known as CEC... |
| CGA |
Color Graphics Adapter... |
| Chip Set |
A chipset or chip set refers to a group of integrated circuits, or chips, that are designed to work together... |
| Chroma Key |
The technique for mixing two images or frames together in which a colour (or a small colour range) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it... |
| Chrominance |
Chrominance is the colour portion of a video signal... |
| Coaxial |
Coaxial cable (or 'coax') is a shielded copper wire cable which consists of two conductors that share a common axis... |
| Codec |
This term is short for "Coder-decoder... |
| Color Banding |
A symptom of insufficient colour depth, colour banding occurs when a monitor is unable to render smooth colour gradients, and instead presents stripes or bands of colour, especially in very light or very dark areas of an image... |
| Colour Depth |
Colour depth (also known as bit depth), is a term describing the number of bits used to represent the colour of a single pixel... |
| Comb Filter |
In signal processing, a comb filter adds a delayed version of a signal to itself, causing constructive and destructive interference... |
| Component Video |
Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more components... |
| Composite Video |
Composite Video is a video colour format where the video information is combined into a single channel... |
| Computer Signal Formats |
4:3 aspect ratio resolutions
QVGA: A video graphics resolution of 320x240 pixels... |
| CRT |
The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube which produces light when an electron beam hits its internal surface... |
