RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE L LCD (liquid crystal display) A display composed of liquid crystal suspended between two transparent sheets. The display is composed thousands of pixels which can be turned on or off with electrical stimulation. Thus, colorful images/texts can be generated. LightFrame™ Digital Reality (LF DR) LightFrame™ Digital Reality is an integrated software and hardware solution for Philips high-end monitors that delivers high quality visual display enhancements to users through quick and convenient hardware or software interfaces. Liquid crystal The compound found in liquid crystal displays. Liquid crystal reacts predictably when electrically stimulated. This makes it the ideal compound to turn LCD pixels "on" or "off." Liquid crystal is sometimes abbreviated as LC. Luminance A measure of the brightness or luminous intensity of light, usually expressed in units of Candelas per square meter (cd/m2) or foot Lamberts. 1 fL=3.426 cd/m2. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE N Nit A unit of luminance equal to 1 cd/m2 or 0.292 ftL. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE P Pixel PICture Element; the smallest element on a computerized CRT or LCD image, and hence a display. Polarizer A light filter which only allows light waves of a certain rotation through. Polarized material with perpendicular filtering is used in LCDs to enclose the liquid crystal. The 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. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE 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 tomes per second. Response Time Response time is the period required for a liquid crystal cell to go from active (black) to inactive (white) and back to active (black) again. It is measured in milliseconds. Faster is better: Lower response time means faster transitions and, therefore, results in fewer visible image artifacts in the display of fast-moving images. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE S SmartControl PC software for fine tuning display performance and settings. Philips offers users two choices for display setting adjustment. Either navigate the multilevel On Screen Display menu through buttons on the display itself or use the Philips SmartControl software to easily adjust the various display settings in a familiar way. SmartTouch controls SmartTouch controls are intelligent, ultra-responsive, touch sensitive icons that replace protruding buttons. Responding to your lightest touch, SmartTouch controls, for example, power up your monitor or brighten and sharpen your display with LightFrame™. When activated, SmartTouch icons glow to indicate that your commands have been implemented. Stand-alone audio function Built-in advanced firmware that delivers audio output from external audio devices including a portable tape, CD or MP3 player even when there is no video input. sRGB sRGB is a standard for ensuring correct exchange of colors between different devices (e.g. digital cameras, monitors, printers, scanners, etc.) Using a standard unified color space, sRGB will help represent pictures taken by an sRGB compatible device correctly on your sRGB enabled Philips monitors. In that way, the colors are calibrated and you can rely on the correctness of the colors shown on your screen. Important with the use of sRGB is that the brightness and contrast of your monitor is fixed to a predefined setting as well as the color gamut. Therefore it is important to select the sRGB setting in the monitor's OSD. To do so, open the OSD by pressing the OK button on the side of your monitor. Move the down button to go to Color and press OK again. Use the right button to go to sRGB. Then move the down button and press OK again to exit the OSD. After this, please do not change the brightness or contrast setting of your monitor. If you change either of these, the monitor will exit the sRGB mode and go to a color temperature setting of 6500K. Other: USB plug: An upstream and a downstream USB plug is provide for user's convenience. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE T TFT(thin film transistor) Usually made from amorphous silicon (a-Si) and used as a switch to a charge storage device located below each sub-pixel on an active matrix LCD. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE U USB or Universal Serial Bus The universal serial bus or USB is a standard protocol for linking PCs and peripherals. Because it delivers high speed at a low cost, USB has become the most popular method for connecting peripheral devices to a computer. A USB 2.0 port located on a monitor directly in the user's line of sight provides easy, high-speed connectivity for USB devices at a convenient location. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE V Vertical refresh rate Expressed in Hz, it is the number of frames (complete pictures) written to the screen every second. RETURN TO TOP OF THE PAGE • Installing your LCD monitor driver • Download and Print...