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Personal Video Recorder (PVR): Digital video recorder with advanced functionality such as an integrated programming guide, one-touch recording, and intelligent recording.
Integrated Programming Guide: Television program listings integrated into the product. Data is collected 14 days in advance and updated daily.
One-Touch Recording: With the touch of a button, schedule recordings of a show in the TV program guide.
Intelligent Recording and Scheduling: ehômesys™ can determine your viewing habits and automatically record shows for you. The more you watch and record shows with your system, the more the system learns. This option can also be disabled.
Pause Live TV: "Pause" live video signal the same way you pause a recorded video.
Timeshifting: View a television program at a time other than when it is broadcast. Our system is always recording, creating a "buffer" of the video.
Progressive Scan: Normal, or interlaced televisions display video by drawing every other horizontal line of the picture on the screen at any given time (half the picture). This is called interlacing, and is a standard (called NTSC in the United States) for television content. Interlacing can cause visual flickering errors with motion or fine detail, which degrade video playback quality. Progressive scan video works differently, as it displays the whole picture at all times. For televisions that support progressive scan, video quality can be significantly improved with Progressive Scan video.
Deinterlacing: This is a process to convert interlaced video into a progressive scan sequence, while also performing calculations to remove undesired artifacts that commonly occur in this kind of conversion. TV playback supports advanced software Deinterlacing that is more sophisticated than most hardware deinterlacing chips found in expensive video equipment. It is ideal for high quality playback on your digital television.
Dolby®: A noise reduction technique that raises the volume of the movie sound track elements most likely to be affected by inherent noise during production. The technique then lowers these elements during projection so that the noise seems lower in relation to the wanted elements of the sound track. In other words, this is a way to reduce noise and improve sound quality on audio systems that support Dolby® playback.
S/PDIF: A digital sound communication standard called Sony Philips Digital Interface Format. This is used to transfer sound from audio devices (such as DVD players or the ehômesys™ Solo and Theater Client™ products) to your audio receiver without adding sound processing, that could change the nature or quality of the audio. This gives you more accurate sound, the way it was intended to be heard.
RAID: A computer standard called Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID employs two or more disks in combination for fault tolerance or performance measures. At ehômesys™, we use RAID in our Series Three™ Pro package to protect your data against drive failure.
Hot Swap: A hot swap is the replacement of a hard drive, power supply, or other device while the computer system remains in operation. The replacement can be because of a device failure or for adding and removing storage devices.
IP: Internet Protocol is a standardized method of transporting information across an Intranet or the Internet in packets of data. ehômesys™ products use IP for communication because IP is more advanced and expandable than older home communication systems such as RS232, Infra Red or 12V wiring.
Ethernet: A common method of networking computers in a LAN using copper cabling. Today, Ethernet can typically handle between 10 and 1000 Megabits-per-second and can be used with almost any kind of computer.
LAN (Local Area Network): A local computer network for communication between computers of limited distance, such as an office or home environment. The ehômesys™ Server uses a LAN to find and communicate with the various ehômesys™ devices in your home.
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