Glossary, abbreviations

Audio output

Receiver sound output

AV channel slot

Preferential channel location of TV set for SCART input

Decoder

Decoder Unscrambling unit for pay-TV

DiSEqC

Control system between receiver and LNB, multi-switch

DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting

Eb/No [dB]

Power density per unit of information

Eb/No ratio

Digital signal-to-noise ratio

LED-Display

Receiver display

LNB

Low Noise Block Converter

Mute

Mute switch

OSD

On-screen display

PAL

Analogue television standard

Pay-TV

Pay-TV (e.g. DF1, Premiere)

PCMCIA

Standard of internal decoder interface for pay-TV

PIN

Personal identification number

Receiver

Receiver

RGB

Video signals made up of 3 individual colour signals (red, green,

 

blue)

Satellite-IF signal

Receiver input signal

SCART cable

21-pin connecting cable

Standby

Standby

S-VHS

Super Video Home System (Video recorder - standard)

Symbol rate

Transmitted data rate of satellite signal

Timer function

Clock function for pre-programmed switch-on and switch-off times

Transponder

See glossary

VCR connection

Video recorder connection

Viterbirate

See glossary

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