Exam 19: Display Technologies

What subset of DirectX supports direct access to the hardware for joysticks and other game controllers?

What is a front-view projector?

How would you use an analog VGA monitor with a DVI-I connector?

To create realistic movement, the 3-D world must refresh at least _______________ times per second.

The VGA standard offers _______________ colors at a resolution of 640 × 480 pixels.

A projector's _______________ is the size of the image at a certain distance from the screen.

How is In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology used?

Directly behind the phosphors in a CRT is the _______________, a screen that allowed only the proper electron gun to light the proper phosphors.

Which video mode is used in larger CRT monitors?

A true 3-D object is composed of a group of points called _______________.

Every 3-D game stores a number of image files called _______________.

Most techs today refer to the device that processes video as a(n) _______________.

No other area of the PC world reflects the amazing acceleration of technological improvements more than 3-D graphics-in particular, 3-D _______________-which attempts to create images with the same depth and texture as objects seen in the real world.

Which connector is best for outputting to television?

Like any other processor, a graphics processor needs _______________.

Why did a normal CRT monitor have three electron guns?

The _______________ subset of the DirectX protocol, supports direct access to the hardware for MIDI devices.

What does a video card need in order to run a 120 Hz monitor or television?

What is a rearview projector?

What do 3-D game programs use to send standard video commands to the device driver?