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OSD |
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PAL |
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Phase Alternation Line. This standard is used for commercial broadcasting in most of Europe, Australia, and parts of Central and South America. PAL format displays at 625 scan lines (rows) of resolution at 25 frames per second (25Hz) |
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NTSC |
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“National Television Systems Committee”. A committee of the Electronic Industries Association that prepared the standards for commercial television broadcasting in the United States, Canada, Korea, Japan and parts of Central and South America. NTSC format has 525 scan lines (rows) of resolution at thirty frames per second (30Hz) |
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EPG |
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Electronic Programming Guide. |
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DVB |
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Digital Video Broadcast. International Standard for digital TV broadcasting. |
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MPEG |
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Motion Picture Expert Group. A system for compression of digital data. |
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FCC |
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The Federal Communications Commission, the regulatory board which sets standards for communications within the United States. |
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Digital |
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Describes a system or device in which information is transferred by electrical “on-off”, high-low”, or “1/0” pulses instead of continuously varying signals or states as in an analog message. |
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COFDM |
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Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing : It’s the modulation scheme selected by the DVB
committee for digital terrestrial broadcast television. See modulation.
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Bandwidth |
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The frequency range allocated to any communication circuit. |
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ATSC |
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“Advanced Television Standard Committee” It’s established by the FCC to define new standards for publicly regulated broadcast television in the U.S. |
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AC-3 |
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Dolby Digital Surround Sound System. A digitally compressed audio format characterized by its ability to offer as many as six separate digital audio channels. AC-3 is used for DVD-Video titles in the NTSC format. PAL titles use MPEG-2 audio. |
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