General Terminologies (Consumer Electronics)

It’s a common resolution for high-definition televisions. It’s one aspect of the amount of pixels that gives a hi-def image.

The next step up from 1080p. it’s four times the number of pixels you’d get on a 1080 display.

A signal or waveform that isn’t reduced to digits.

It’s the connected universe of all the devices that have become “smart,” whether it’s a TV, a refrigerator, a thermostat, or even a leak-detector in your plumbing system.

Refers to telecommunication that has a wider bandwidth (extends into higher frequencies), allowing for more data to be carried.

Refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances while they are switched off or in a standby mode.

This “digital protocol” is designed to prevent piracy by preventing digital audio & video content to be copied as it travels across connections.

Is an interface standard which utilizes a single high-bandwidth cable that can carry both digital audio and video signals

Interconnects electronic products and systems, enabling remote access to, and control of, those products and systems, as well as any other available content such as music, video, or data.

An interface that allows the user to literally tell a machine what to do via a user’s human voice.

It’s the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

A communication protocol that enable two electronic devices, one of which is usually a portable device such as a smartphone, to establish communication by bringing them within 4cm of each other.