What is the image?
Picture-in-Picture (PIP) is a feature that some TVs allow you to watch two programs at a time by placing a small window inserting into the main window. The insertion window has no sound, but allows you to watch what is played on the second channel. Press the button on the remote control to switch the windows, insert the secondary channel into the main window and Visa-Versa. For those who cannot sit through ads and find out that they will turn to another program that needs to be followed, temporarily, introducing the original show into the insert window eliminates the need to guess when the ads are over.
PIP is also useful when waiting for a specific item in the evening news. Teaser can be repetitive, while the segment after segment continuation. Using the image in the image, you can put the news into the secondary window and watch another program until the novelty appears. To break the news, the image in the imagery to watch two stations at once to stay informed. If you follow theThe engraving of a living court, persecution of a local car or press conference, when one station stops, you can quickly switch to the other.
using sports fans of images can watch two events and go to the game with the most action at the moment. Time-out and half times are no longer a problem using PIP and you switch too late, just missing the winning goal, home run, put, touch or endplay. PIP is particularly useful during the Olympics for watching various meetings that occur simultaneously.
PIP can be implemented in different ways. Some TVs allow you to move and change the size of the insert window. PIP, which allows both images to be the same size sharing of 50% of the screen is sometimes called image image or pop; And some flavors send the sound from the second image through the headphones, called the picture and the pictory (PAP).
There are objections to the use of TechnoloGII image in the image. PIP requires the TV to have two built -in tuners to tune in in two channels at once, or the secondary window will only display another source, such as VHS or DVD. However, even if the TV has two tuners, if the TV uses an external tuner, such as a cable box or a satellite receiver, only one channel will be disatned after the second. If the channels you want to watch are mixed broadcasts, you are lucky if the external tuner also does not contain two PIP tuners. Cable and satellite receivers containing two tuners are usually available for a slightly higher monthly fee than standard disposable boxes.