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High Defi nition TV Satellite Receiver

16. Glossary

DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting.
Consortium of various international organizations and
companies whose objective is the realization of standards
worldwide aimed at the development of digital television.
EPG: Electronic Programme Guide.
Guide that provides the user with a list of events to be
broadcast in each of the programs, the time of emission of
them and a description of its contents.
Letterbox: One way to present in 4:3 screen TV, programs
broadcast with 16:9 aspect ratio.
This is done by using black bars on the top and bottom of
the screen on the TV to create a window with the desired
aspect ratio.
OSD: On Screen Display.
Screen menu system.
Digital: Sound that has been transformed into numerical
values. For digital sound, you should use the SPDIF or
HDMI connectors. These jacks send the sound via multiple
channels, instead of just two channels as analog.
HDMI: High Defi nition Multimedia Interface.
High-Defi nition Multimedia Interface that allows the use
of standard video, enhanced, or high defi nition and digital
multichannel audio in one cable.
USB: Universal Serial Bus
Port used to connect peripherals.
PVR: Personal Video Recorder
Interactive device for recording digital TV.
SPDIF: Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
Hardware level protocol for transmission of PCM
modulated digital stereo audio signals, between devices
and stereo components.
LNB : Low Noise Block
It is a device used for receiving signals from satellites.
Located in the focus of the dish, converts the microwave
signal at a lower frequency signal, that can be distributed
via coaxial cable. This band is called Intermediate
Frequency (IF).
Transponders: Automatic devices that receive, amplify,
and retransmit a signal on a diff erent frequency.
DiSEqC: Digital Satellite Equipment Control
It is a special communications protocol to be used
between a satellite receiver and a device such as a multi-
antenna switch, a rotor of a small antenna, or a multi-LNB
holder.
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
It is a compression and coding standard for still images. It
is the most common image format used by digital cameras
and other devices to record pictures.
MPEG4/MP4:
Family of compression standards for digital audio / video
used by the DVB.
MKV: Matroska
It is an extensible, open source, open standard multimedia
container; a computer fi le that can contain an unlimited
number of video fi les, audio fi les, subtitle fi les and
stereoscopic/3D video fi les..
MMC/SD: MultiMediaCard/ Secure Digital
Memory card formats.
FAT 32: File Allocation Table
It is a fi le system developed for MS-DOS.
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