Digital Video Broadcasting: Technology, Standards and Regulations
An overview of the technical, political, and market issues relating to digital video broadcast and digital television.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Digital Video Broadcasting: Technology, Standards and Regulations
Glossary
- AC-3
- audio compression; Dolby standard for multichannel audio source coding
- ACATS
- Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service
- A/D-converter
- analog-to-digital converter
- AM
- amplitude modulation
- API
- application protocol interface
- ARPA
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ATA
- awareness technology assessment
- ATM
- asynchronous transfer mode
- ATSC
- Advanced Television Systems Committee
- ATTC
- Advanced Television Test Center
- ATV
- advanced television
- AWGN
- additive white Gaussian noise
- B
- bandwidth
- BAT
- Bouquet Association Table
- BB
- baseband
- BBC
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- BER
- bit error ratio
- BNA
- broadcast network adapter
- BNI
- broadband network interface
- BOC
- Bell operating company
- BSS
- broadcasting satellite services
- BTA
- Broadcasting Technology Association
- CA
- conditional access
- CAMS
- conditional access management system
- CAT
- conditional access table
- CATV
- cable antenna television
- CCIR
- Comit Consultatif International des Radiocommunications (an ITU organization)
- CCIR IWP
- CCIR Interim Working Party
- CCITT
- Comit Consultatif International T l graphe et T l phone (an ITU organization)
- CENELEC
- Comit Europ en de Normalisation Electrotechnique
- CI
- common interface
- CLUT
- color look-up table
- CoJ
- court of justice
- COM
- Communication of the European Commission
- CPS
- cable programming service
- CSA
- common scrambling algorithm
- CTA
- constructive technology assessment
- CW
- control word
- C-MAC
- combined multiplexed analog components
- D/A-converter
- digital-to-analog converter
- DAB
- digital audio broadcasting
- DARPA
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- DAVIC
- Digital Audio-Video Council
- DBS
- direct broadcast satellite
- DCT
- discrete cosine transformation
- D-MAC
- duo-binary multiplexed analog components
- D2-MAC
- duo-binary multiplexed analog components; D2 indicates that the bit rate is half of the D-MAC standard
- DEMUX
- demultiplexer
- DIAMOND
- digital television project within SPECTRE
- DIGSMATV
- digital television project within RACE
- DSB
- digital satellite...
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