Receiver Descrambler - User Manual (release 7.3.1)
Appendix A – Acronyms and Glossary
8VSB: Vestigial sideband modulation with 8 discrete amplitude levels.
16VSB: Vestigial sideband modulation with 16 discrete amplitude levels.
AC-3: Also known as Dolby Digital
AAC: Advanced Audio Coding
AES: Audio Engineering Society
ASI: Asynchronous Serial Interface
ATSC: Advanced Television Systems Committee
AV: Audio Video
Bit Rate: The rate at which the compressed bit stream is delivered from the channel to the input of a decoder.
BNC: British Naval Connector
BPS: Bits per second.
CAT: Conditional Access Table
CAT6: Category 6 – Cable standard for gigabit Ethernet
CC: Closed Caption
CoP: Code of Practice
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
CVCT: Cable Virtual Channel Table
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DTVCC: Digital Television Closed Captioning
DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting
EBU: European Broadcasting Union
EIA: Electronic Industries Alliance
EIT: Event Information Table
EPG: Electronic Program Guide
ETM: Extended Text Message
ETT: Extended Text Table
Event: An event is defined as a collection of elementary streams with a common time base, an associated
start time, and an associated end time.
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
FEC: Forward Error Correction
Field: For an interlaced video signal, a “field” is the assembly of alternate lines of a frame. Therefore, an
interlaced frame is composed of two fields, a top field and a bottom field.
Frame: A frame contains lines of spatial information of a video signal. For progressive video, these lines
contain samples starting from one time instant and continuing through successive lines to the bottom of the
frame. For interlaced video a frame consists of two fields, a top field and a bottom field. One of these fields
will commence one field later than the other.
HANC: Horizontal Ancillary
HD: High Definition
High level: A range of allowed picture parameters defined by the MPEG-2 video coding specification which
corresponds to high definition television.
I/O: Input/Output
IP: Internet Protocol
LED: Light Emitting Diode
LNB: Low-Noise Block
MAC: Medium Access Control
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