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A b b r e v i a t i o n s a n d A c r o n y m s
A/V | Audio/Video |
AM | Amplitude Modulation |
CATV | Cable TV |
CD | Compact Disc |
CSR | Customer Service Representative |
DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
DCP | Digital Convergence Platform |
DCT 2000 | Digital Consumer Terminal 2000 |
DTS | Digital Theater Systems. Sound system created by Digital Theater Systems, Inc. to rival |
| Dolby Digital 5.1 |
DVD | Digital Versatile Disk |
EMM | entitlement management message(s) |
EPG | Electronic Program Guide |
FM | Frequency Modulation |
HRC | harmonically related carriers |
IPG | interactive program guide |
IPPV | Impulse |
IR | |
IR Blaster | Infrared Blaster |
IRC | incrementally related carriers |
kH | Kilo Hertz, thousand of cycles. For the DCP, refers to the frequency of sounds that you can |
| hear and transmission frequencies of AM radio stations. |
LD | Laser Disk |
LFE | Low Frequency Effect |
MHz | Mega Hertz |
mp3 | See |
MPAA | Motion Picture Association of America |
MPAA | Motion Picture Advisory Association |
Moving Pictures Expert Group standard 1, designed for coding progressive video at a | |
| transmission rate of 1.5Mbps, designed for |
| (mp3) evolved from this. |
Moving Pictures Expert Group standard 2, designed for coding interlaced images at rates | |
| greater than 4Mbps. Used for digital and high definition television broadcast. |
NTSC | National Television Standards Committee |
NVOD | Near Video on Demand |
NVRAM | |
OSD | On Screen Display |
DCP501 User Guide