Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations |
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| a.d.e. | Usenet newsgroup alt.dbs.echostar |
| ALTV | Association of Local Television Stations |
| a/o | Additional outlet |
| A/V | Audio/Video |
| AEP | America's Everything Pack |
| AT## | America's Top 40(50), 100, 150 |
| ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee. http://www.atsc.org/ |
| AZ | Azimuth |
| BEV | Bell ExpressVu. Canadian DBS provider, uses Echostar equipment. http://www.expressvu.com/ |
| bird | Satellite |
| BUD | Big ugly dish |
| CONUS | CONtinental United States |
| CSR | Customer Service Representative |
| D500 | Dish 500 (20" elliptical dish that "sees" two satellites) |
| D* | DirecTV |
| DBS | Direct Broadcast Satellite, also refers to the specific 12GHz broadcast band used |
| DD | Dolby Digital (AC-3) sometimes Digital Dynamite, renamed Digital Home Plan |
| DHP | Digital Home Plan, DISH's leasing option |
| DISH | Dish Network |
| D/L | Download |
| DMA | Designated Market Area as determined by Nielsen Media. See Ranking of DMA's |
| DN | Dish Network See: E* |
| dp | dishpro line of receivers, switches and LNBs that allow for simpler installations. DishPro Technology |
| DP## | dishpro switch model |
| DP | DISHPlayer |
| DPC | DirecPC |
| DPL | Dolby Pro-Logic |
| DSS | Former marketing name of combined DirecTV & USSB services. |
| DTH | Direct-to-Home |
| DTV | Digital Television. Also often used for DirecTV. |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcast. http://www.dvb.org |
| DVR | Digital Video Recorder |
| E* | Echostar See: DN |
| ECM | Electronic Counter-measure. Any of a number of methods the service provider may use to disable pirated smart cards. |
| EKB | Echostar Knowledge Base. Home page |
| EL | Elevation |
| EPG | Electronic Program Guide |
| EUO | Echostar User Organization. Web site no longer exists. |
| EVu | Bell ExpressVu |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FTA | Free-to-air |
| G2H | Gilat-to-Home, now StarBand. 2-way satellite internet access. |
| GUI | Graphic User Interface |
| HD | Hard-drive, high-definition |
| HDR | Hard-drive Recorder |
| HDTV | High-Definition TV subset of DTV. 720p or 1080i. |
| HOA | Homeowners association |
| IR | Infra-red |
| IRD | Integrated Receiver Decoder (satellite receiver) |
| LIL | Local-into-local satellite delivery of broadcast stations. |
| LMB | (frequent error) see LNBF |
| LNB | short for LNBF |
| LNBF | Low Noise Block downconverter with integrated Feedhorn |
| MDU | Multi-dwelling unit |
| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group. Standards committee for video compession methods including the digital compression method utilized by Dish Network (MPEG2). Official committee: http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/, Resources: http://www.mpeg.org/ |
| NAB | National Association of Broadcasters. http://www.nab.org/ |
| NRTC | National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative http://www.nrtc.org/ |
| NTSC | National Television Systems Committee. Analog broadcast TV. |
| O&O | Owned and Operated network affiliate |
| OFA | One for All remote control |
| OOM | Out-of-market |
| OTA | Over-the-air |
| OTARD | Over-the-air Reception Device. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html |
| P* | Primestar. Defunct Ku-band DTH satellite system. |
| PCM | Pulse Code Modulation. Digital sound like CD's. |
| PIP | Picture In Picture |
| POP | Point of Presence. The place where Dish harvests local broadcast signals for uplink to Cheyenne. |
| PPV | Pay-per-view |
| PQ | Picture quality |
| PR | Press release |
| PTV | Personal Television. Weather and headlines service bundled with games and recording ability. DISHPlayer only. |
| PVR | Personal Video Recorder |
| QAM | Quadrature Amplitude Modulation |
| QPSK | Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RMA | Return Merchandise Authorization |
| RPTV | Rear-projection TV |
| RSN | Regional Sports Network |
| sat | Satellite |
| SB | StarBand. Satellite Internet Access Page |
| SD | See SDTV. Often incorrectly used to refer to NTSC |
| SDTV | Standard-Definition TV subset of DTV. 480i or 480p |
| SHVIA | Satellite Home Viewers Improvement Act. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/shva/ |
| SLD | Silly little dish |
| STB | Set-top box |
| SW## | Switch. Allows receiver to select from multiple satellites. See What are switches, and why do I need them? |
| Syndex | Syndicated Exclusivity. The right of a local broadcaster to require that programs also broadcast from a distant station be blacked out from that station for local viewers. |
| Tp | Transponder |
| UHF | Ultra-high Frequency |
| UI | User Interface |
| USSB | United States Satellite Broadcasting. Now part of DirecTV. |
| Y/C | S-video. Luminance and chroma are separated |
| YPrPb | Component Video |
| 110 | Satellites at 110° West longitude |
| 119 | Satellites at 119° West longitude |
| 148 | Satellites at 148° West longitude |
| 61.5 | Satellite at 61.5° West longitude |
| 8VSB | 8 Vestigial sideband. HDTV broadcast standard. |
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/cdiac/pns/acronyms.html
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