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video recording
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high-definition television
TV resolution standard

data compression
process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation
digital television
transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal
IPTV
system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite
standard-definition television
original analog television systems
Internet television
distribution of television content via the public Internet
Ultra-high-definition television
television formats beyond HDTV
multiplexing
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over-the-top media service
service delivering video over the Internet instead of through a multi-system operator
Digital Video Broadcasting
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digital terrestrial television
broadcast television technology
content delivery network
layer in the Internet ecosystem addressing bottlenecks

Digital Living Network Alliance
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a set of interoperability standards for sharing home digital media among multimedia devices. It allows users to share or stream stored media files to various certified devices on the same network like PCs, smartphones, TV sets, game consoles, stereo systems, and NASs. DLNA incorporates several existing public standards, including Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management and device discovery and control, wired and wireless networking standards, and widely used digital media formats. Many routers and network attached storage (NAS) devices have
electronic program guide
systems that provide schedule information for consumers of broadcast programming
ATSC standards
set of standards for digital television
Mobile television
television watched on a cell phone
Rostelecom
Rostelecom (Russian: Ростелеком) is Russia's largest provider of digital services for a wide variety of consumers, households, private businesses, government and municipal authorities, and other telecom providers.
Rostelecom interconnects all local public operators' networks into a single national network for long-distance service. In other words, if one makes a long-distance call or originates Internet contact to or from Russia, Rostelecom is likely providing part of the service. The company's stock trades primarily on the Moscow Exchange.
high-definition video
video of higher resolution than original television
time shifting
recording a program to be viewed or listened to after the airing time
digital television transition
global switchover to digital television
peak signal-to-noise ratio
metric used to measure picture quality
triple play
marketing term in telecommunications
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV
Industry standard for hybrid digital television
ISDB
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB; Japanese: , Tōgō dejitaru hōsō sābisu) is a Japanese broadcasting standard for digital television (DTV) and digital radio.
conditional access system
in broadcast engineering
Card sharing
method to share subscription television with one valid card
Basic Interoperable Scrambling System
satellite signal scrambling system
multiplex
broadcasting term; grouping of program services that are sub-grouped as interleaved data packets
Nagravision
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Nagravision (or Nagra Kudelski or simply Nagra) is a company of the Kudelski Group that develops conditional access systems for digital cable and satellite television. The name is also used for their main products, the Nagravision encryption systems.
Video4Linux
Video4Linux (V4L for short) is a collection of device drivers and an API for supporting realtime video capture on Linux systems. It supports USB webcams, TV tuners, CSI cameras, and related devices, standardizing their output, so programmers can easily add video support to their applications.
Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast
digital television standard developed by China

Nagra
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Nagra is a Swiss brand of portable audio recorders first introduced in 1951. In 1997, the company expanded into new markets by launching a range of high-end equipment designed for the audiophile community.
single-frequency network
Group of electronic media outlets that broadcasts data along the same number of cycles
1seg
is a mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service in Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru and the Philippines. Service began experimentally during 2005 and commercially on April 1, 2006. It is designed as a component of ISDB-T, the terrestrial digital broadcast system used in those countries, as each channel is divided into 13 segments, with a further segment separating it from the next channel; an HDTV broadcast signal occupies 12 segments, leaving the remaining (13th) segment for mobile receivers, hence the name, "1seg" or "One Seg".
MEO
Portuguese telecommunications company
NDS Group
technology company
Rec. 601
recommendation/international standard from the International Telecommunication Union
pixel aspect ratio
proportion between the width and the height of a pixel
Low-definition television
TV systems with screen resolution lower than standard-definition
Virtual channel
method of remapping a digital program stream to a channel number
Airtel digital TV
Satellite television provider
Rec. 709
standard for HDTV image encoding and signal characteristics
Video quality
perceived video degradation
Conax
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Conax develops television encryption, conditional access and content security for digital television. Conax provide CAS technology to pay TV operators in 85 countries. The company has offices in Norway (headquarters), Russia, Germany, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, China, Singapore, and India, with a 24/7 Global Support Center in India.
BBC Red Button
interactive television services offered by the BBC
ISDB-T International
technical standard for digital televisions
digital dividend after digital television transition
technology
PowerVu
PowerVu is a conditional access system for digital television developed by Scientific Atlanta. It is used for professional broadcasting, notably by Retevision, Bloomberg Television, Discovery Channel, AFRTS, ABS-CBN, GMA Network, and American Forces Network. It is also used by cable companies to prevent viewing by unauthorized viewers and non-cable subscribers.
Broadcast flag
bits in a digital television program that indicates recording restrictions
DBox2
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Program and System Information Protocol
video and audio industry protocol
PDTV
PDTV is an abbreviation short for Pure Digital Television. Often seen as part of the filename of TV shows shared through P2P, The Scene, and FTP servers on the Internet. In this case, PDTV refers not to container, bitrate or dimensions of the video, but the digital nature of the capture source. Non Scene European rippers often use the label DVBRip or DVB-rip to specify a purely digital rip of a Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), however all Scene groups use standardized labeling.
TV-Anytime
TV-Anytime is a set of specifications for the controlled delivery of multimedia content to a user's local storage. It seeks to exploit the evolution in convenient, high capacity storage of digital information to provide consumers with a highly personalized TV experience. Users will have access to content from a wide variety of sources, tailored to their needs and personal preferences. TV-Anytime specifications are specified by the TV-Anytime Forum.
Quadruple play
Mediaguard
MediaGuard is a conditional access system for digital television developed by SECA (Société Européenne de Contrôle d'Accès; renamed to Canal+ Technologies SA) (CEO François Carayol), a subsidiary of Canal+ Group, sold to Thomson (CEO Thierry Breton). Then Canal+ Technologies SA was broken in two pieces by Thomson in 2003, the MediaGuard sold to Nagra France and the MediaHighway to NDS France.
Viaccess
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Viaccess is a conditional access system developed by France Télécom, now Orange. There are six versions in use today, Viaccess PC2.3, Viaccess PC2.4, Viaccess PC2.5, Viaccess PC2.6, Viaccess ACS3.x/Prime Sentinel, Viaccess ACS4.1, Viaccess ACS5.0, and Viaccess ACS6.x/Adaptive Sentinel.
Scalable Video Coding
extension of the video compression standard H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Integrated digital television
television set with a built-in digital tuner
Asynchronous serial interface
standardised transport interface for the broadcast industry