Brief Technical Glossary
Timer function
Clock function for
Timeshift function
Time shifted playback
Transponder
A transponder is a frequency converter which receives TV and radio signals broadcast from the earth, converts them and the rebroadcasts them back to the earth at a different frequency. A satellite has several transponders.
Analogue transponders transmit only one TV channel and possibly multiple radio channels on a single transmission frequency.
Digital transponders simultaneously transmit several TV and several radio programmes on a transmission frequency. If a programme provider is broadcasting several TV channels via a digital transponder, we refer to the provider's channel package. The terms “digital transponder” and “channel package” have the same meaning.
UPnP
Stands for “Universal Plug and Play”. Further information is available from “www.upnp.org”.
VCR/PVR connection
Connection for an external recorder (such as a video or DVD recorder)
Video-Bit-Rate
The video bit rate describes the quantity of data from the digitised video signal that is transmitted per second.
Viterbi rate
The Viterbi rate (code rate, error rate) characterises the error protection used by the programme provider. The DVB standard provides the following values: 1/2 - 2/3 - 3/4 - 5/6 - 7/8
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