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| DATV | Digital Amateur Television | |
| DVB-T | Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial | |
| DVB-S | Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite | |
| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group | Digital Television Norms |
| HDMI | High Definition Multimedia Interface | |
| DVI | Digital Visual Interface | |
| ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee | Digital Television Standard in USA |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union | |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute | |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization | |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Committee | |
| VCEG | Video Coding Experts Group | ITU-T |
| FTDI | Future Technology Devices International | Scottish – USB chips and drivers |
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| IQ | In Phase and Quadrature | |
| QAM | Quadrature Amplitude Modulation | |
| QPSK | Quadrature Phase Shift Keying | |
| 8PSK | Octogonal Phase Shift Keying | |
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| BIT | Binary digit | |
| ENOB | Effective Number of Bits | |
| TS | Transport Stream | |
| PES | Packetized Elementary Stream | |
| SR | Symbol Rate | kS/s |
| PID | Packet Identifier | |
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| PAT | Program Associate Table | |
| PMT | Program Map Table | |
| CAT | Conditional Access Table | |
| NIT | Network Information Table | |
| SDT | Service Description Table | |
| TDT | Time and Date Table | |
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| FEC | Forward Error Correction | |
| BER | Bit Error Rate | |
| CBER | Pre BER | Before Viterbi Correction |
| VBER | Post BER | After Viterbi Correction |
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| CNR or C/N | Carrier to Noise Ratio | dB |
| MER | Modulation Error Ratio | dB Digital |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio | dB Analog or Digital |
| EVM | Error Vector Magnitude | |
| NPM | Noise Power Measurement | |
| DR | Dynamic Range | |
| PCR | Program Clock Reference | DVB |
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| PLL | Phase Locked Loop | |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array | |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display | |
| NIM | Network Interface Module | |
| BBgain | Preamp inside Tuner STV6110 | |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol | |
| STB | Set-Top Box | |