Glossary And Acronyms - Panasonic TH-37PX50U Technical Manual

Glossary and Acronyms

ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)
Standardization body that developed the Digital Television Terrestrial formats.
CDS (Current Directory Structure)
DCF (Design rule for Camera File system)
Unified standard established by Japan Electronics and Information Technology
Industries Association (JEITA).
DCM (Digital Carrier Module)
A PCMCIA type card that is provided by the Cable operator
FAT (Forward Application Transport)
FAT 12 or FAT 16: File systems used in formatting the memory cards.
FDC STATUS (Forward Data Channel Status)
POD (Point Of Deployment)
PCR (Program Clock Reference)
PID (Packet Identification Data)
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
Interface that supports every uncompressed digital format as well as all existing multi-
channel audio format on a single cable
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
A system used for compressing/decoding color still pictures.
MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)
Guild governing rating assignments to movies
NTSC (National Television Systems Committee)
Standardization body that developed the Analog Television Terrestrial formats.
Password
A four-digit code a user must provide in order to perform a function.
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