Philips 170c7f User Manual

Glossary
 
L
LCD (liquid crystal display)
A display composed of liquid crystal suspended between two transparent s\
heets. The display is 
composed thousands of pixels which can be turned on or off with electric\
al stimulation. Thus, 
colorful images/texts can be generated.
 
 
Liquid crystal
The compound found in liquid crystal displays. Liquid crystal reacts pre\
dictably when electrically 
stimulated. This makes it the ideal compound to turn LCD pixels on or \
off. Liquid crystal is 
sometimes...

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A light filter which only allows light waves of a certain rotation throu\
gh. Polarized material with 
perpendicular filtering is used in LCDs to enclose the liquid crystal. T\
he liquid crystal is then used 
as the medium which twists the light waves 90° in order to allow the \
light to pass through or not.
R
Refresh rate
The number of times per second the screen is refreshed or redrawn. This \
number is usually stated 
in Hz (Hertz) or cycles per second. A rate of 60 Hz is equal to 60 tom\
es...

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TFT(thin film transistor)
Usually made from amorphous silicon (a-Si) and used as a switch to a c\
harge storage device 
located below each sub-pixel on an active matrix LCD.
 
U 
USB or Universal Serial Bus
A smart plug for PC peripherals. USB automatically determines resources (like driver software and 
bus bandwidth) required by peripherals. USB makes necessary resources a\
vailable without user 
intervention.
l     USB eliminates case anxiety -- the fear of removing the computer case \
to...

Glossary
controlled switch between the upstream port and downstream ports. It als\
o has hardware support 
for reset and suspend/resume signaling. The controller provides the inte\
rface registers to allow 
communication to/from the host. Hub specific status and control commands\
 permit the host to 
configure a hub and to monitor and control its ports. 
Device 
A logical or physical entity that performs a function. The actual entity\
 described depends on the 
context of the reference. At the lowest...

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V 
Vertical refresh rate 
Expressed in Hz, it is the number of frames (complete pictures) writte\
n to the screen every second.
 
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 • Installing your LCD monitor 
driver
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Instructions
 • Installing FPadjust Program
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Installing Your LCD monitor driver
System requirements: 
l     PC running Windows 95, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000 , Windows® Me\
, Windows® XP or 
later
l     Find your driver .inf/.icm/.cat at : /PC/drivers/
Read the Readme.txt file before installing. 
This page provides an option to read the manual in .pdf format. PDF file\
s can be downloaded...

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 To print the manual:
1. With the manual file open, follow your printers instructions and pri\
nt the pages you need.
 
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Installing FPadjust Program 
The FP Adjust program generates alignment patterns which will help you a\
djust monitor settings 
such as CONTRAST, BRIGHTNESS, HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL POSITION, PHASE and \
CLOCK.
 
System requirements: 
l     PC running Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, Windows®\
 Me, Windows® XP or 
later
 
To install...

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