splash screen

English translation: Initial screen

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English term or phrase:	splash screen
Selected answer:	Initial screen
Entered by:	Heinrich Pesch

12:57 Nov 2, 2003

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Tech/Engineering / video

English term or phrase: splash screen

I know there are splash screens on web pages, but what does a splash screen on a video projector? Phase:
"The projector splash screen displays and connected devices are detected."
Does the splash screen display the logo of its manufacture or something like that?

Heinrich Pesch KudoZ activity Questions: 172 (1 open) (4 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 299 Finland
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Initial screen

Explanation:
This applies just as much to projectors as websites! It will almost certainly display the manufacturer's logo, but this seems to imply that it will also detect connected devices.

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http://www.videosystems.com/ar/video_nec_ht/

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An entertainment venue or club can store a company logo onboard for use as a startup or input-idle splash screen. There is also a digital photo viewer for movie theater-style advertisements.

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David Knowles
Local time: 04:05

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Thanks, I got the meaning now.
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Initial screen

David Knowles

something interesting

Xiaoping Fu

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Initial screen

David Knowles
Local time: 04:05
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Thanks, I got the meaning now.

59 mins confidence:

something interesting

Explanation:
A splash screen is displaying wherever a computer is doing something not of the interests of the users, such as loading a program, detecting some devices, connecting to a net work or setting up a working environment.

The original purpose of splash screen is to catch up people's eyes and show them something more interesting than a simple line saying "the program is loading", so that the users would not be bored and the time taken by the process would be felt shorter.

Xiaoping Fu
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Chinese
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