Acronyms & Abbreviations

A

AAC - Advanced Audio Coding  

ADC - Analog to Digital Converter  

AFE - Analog Front-End

AGC - Automatic Gain Control  

ASD - Automatic Standard Detection

ATSC - Advanced Television Systems Committee  

B

BAT - Bouquet Association Table

C

CA - Conditional Access

COFDM - Coded Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing  

CVBS - Composite Video Broadcast Signal  

D

DDC - Display Data Channel  

DIT - Discontinuity Information Table

DMT - Discrete Multi-tone Modulation  

DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting  

E

EDID - Extended Display Identification Data  

EIT - Event Information Table

ES - Elementary Stream  

F

FDM - Frequency-Division Multiplexing  

FRC - Frame Rate Conversion  

G

GOP - Group Of Pictures  

H

HBR - High Bitrate

HE-AAC - High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding  

L

LVDS - Low-voltage Differential Signaling  

M

MJC - Motion Judder Cancellation

N

NIT - Network Information Table

NVOD - Near Video On Demand

O

OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing  

OSD - On-Screen Display  

OSG - On-Screen Graphics  

P

PAT - Program Association Table  

PCR - Program Clock Reference  

PES - Packetized Elementary Stream  

PID - Packet Identifier  

PMT - Program Map Table  

PSI - Program Specific Information  

PTS - Presentation Time Stamp

Q

QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation  

R

RST - Running Status Table

S

SDL - Simple Direct[Media] Layer (Library)  

SDT - Service Description Table

SIF - Sound Intermediate Frequency

SMI - Storage Media Interoperability

SoG - Sync on Green  

SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface  

ST - Stuffing Table

T

TDT - Time and Date Table

TOT - Time Offset Table

TS - Transport Stream  

V

VBI - Vertical Blanking Interval

W

WB - White Balance  

WDT - Watchdog Timer  

WoL - Wake On LAN