- AC-3
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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...