MEPS − TelevisionsApril 2005
GLOSSARY
AGO | Australian Greenhouse Office |
ANZ | Australian and New Zealand |
AS | Australian Standard |
AS/NZS | Joint Australian and New Zealand standard |
BAU | Business as Usual |
BRANZ | Building Research Association of New Zealand |
| Carbon dioxide equivalent |
Comparative label | A type of product label that indicates not only that the product meets specific |
| energy or environmental criteria, but allows comparison between products by |
| ranking. |
CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
DVD | Digital Video Disk |
DVB | Digital Video Broadcasting |
EECA | Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority |
Endorsement label | A type of product label that indicates a product meets specific criteria (i.e. |
| energy or environmental). The label does not allow comparison between |
| eligible products. |
EER | Energy Efficiency Ratio |
EEI | Energy Efficiency Index, a measure which indicates the efficiency of TVs in |
| both the On and Standby mode. |
GEEA | Group for Energy Efficient Appliances (Europe) |
HDTV | |
HEEP | Household Energy |
IRD | Integrated receiver decoder |
LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
MCE | Ministerial Council on Energy (Australia) |
MEPS | Minimum Energy Performance Standards |
NAEEEP | National Appliance and Equipment Energy Program (Australia) |
NAEEEC | National Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee (Australia) |
NFEE | National Framework for Energy Efficiency (Australia) |
NPV | Net present value |
Ownership | The ratio of stock to the total number of households. |
Penetration | The proportion of households in which a particular appliance type is present |
| (irrespective of the number of units of that appliance in the household). |
Saturation | The number of specified appliances per household, for those households that |
| have the appliance. |
SDTV | |
Statistics NZ | Statistics New Zealand |
STB | Set top box |
TTMRA | |
TV | Television |
VCR | Video cassette recorder |
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