GLOSSARY
AES/EBU | Audio engineering Society/European Broadcast Union |
ATR | Commonly used abbreviation for Audio Tape Recorder |
Audio | Sound element of a television program, composed of |
| one or more channels of sound, music, and narration |
Data encoding format for serial transmission | |
Cue audio | Audible information sound track |
D1 | Component digital (4:2:2) videotape format |
D2 | Component digital videotape format |
DAC | Digital to Analog Convertor |
Analog to Digital conversion technique | |
Duplex | |
ECL | Emitter Coupled Logic |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission (government |
| agency) |
FET | Field Effect Transistor |
Fiber | Refers to glass core of fiber optic cable |
Fiber Optic | Glass transmission cable used in all modern |
| telecommunications systems |
HDTV | Commonly used abbreviation for High Definition |
| Television |
HDVS | Commonly used abbreviation for High Definition Video |
| System |
Hybrid | Electrical component technology |
I/O | Commonly used abbreviation for Input and Out |
| interfaces and/or modules |
IC | Commonly used abbreviation for Integrated Circuit |
LED | Light Emmitting Diode |
Monaural | Single audio channel |
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