MOV | Abbreviation for Metal Oxide Varistors |
MUX | Commonly used abbreviation for Multiplexer Board |
Nm | Nanometer - metric measurement, refers to frequency |
| of fiber optic spectrum |
NTSC | National Television Systems Committee. The standard |
| broadcastspecifications approved by the Federal |
| Communications Commission (FCC) in 1953 for |
| commercial color television in the U.S. Television |
| signal is scanned in 525 lines |
Oversampling | Digital sampling technique to increase digital sample |
| rate |
PAL | Phase Alternate Lines. European, Asian, and Australian |
| color television standard. An improvement on the |
| NTSC. Television signal is scanned in 625 lines |
PROM | Programmable Read Only Memory |
PWM | Abbreviation for Pulse Width Modulation |
RAM | Abbreviation for Random Access Memory |
S/N | Commonly used abbreviation for Signal to Noise ratio. |
Simplex | |
SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
ST type connector | A fiber optic connector |
Stereo | A system of sound reproduction for two precisely |
| phased channels of audio |
Stereo pair | Left and right channels of stereo audio |
STL | Studio Transmitter Link |
Switcher | A device which performs simple or complex video |
| transitions, i.e, cuts, dissolves, wipes, keys |
Synchronization | The process whereby two machines are controlled by |
| identical time bases |
Take | A connection command given to a signal routing device |
Timecode | Standard for encoding time in hours, minutes, seconds |
| and frames of video |
TTL | Transistor, Transistor Logic |
NV3128 |