Glossary --- Anyone can contribute....

[Sean Mota]

I am putting together a Glossary of abreviations. Just post here and then I will move the terms to a cleaner thread.

Glossary

Most obvious ones:

E* - Dish Network
D* - DirecTv
V* - VOOM
DTV - Digital Tv
LOS - Line of Sight
OAR - Original Aspect Ratio
BTW - By the Way

 

[Seanb61]

HDTV Leader - VOOM

 

[Pete In Plano]

People use STB for set top box a lot. OTA.

 

[Ilya]

Glossary! Great idea!
Ok, here are some 2-letter abbreviations:

CC - Closed Captioning
HD - High Definition
PG - Program Guide
PP - Program Planner
PQ - Picture Quality
SD - Standard Definition
SM - Sean Mota ... just kidding
SM - Service Menu

 

[wasch_24]

OTA= Over the Air
Rupert= D*
Charles= E*
Dolan's= V*
SQ= Sound Quality
HT= Home Theater
UHF= Ultra High Frequency
VHF= Very High Frequency
VCR= Video Cassette Recorder
TNTHD= Poser

 

[barth2k]

PVR or DVR - TiVo like device
TiVo - PVR okay, personal (also digital) video recorder
CSR - customer service rep

 

[Ilya]

DVI, HDMI, HDCP. Probably it wouldn't be enough to say what this stands for, I guess we need a more detailed explanation...

Also, how about RGB, VGA, S-video, Y/Pr/Pb, Toslink, S/PDIF... Do you think we need to explain those as well?

 

[Walter L.]

IMCO - In my considered opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO - In My Opinion
IMPO - In my pious opinion
IMSHO - In My So Humble Opinion
IOHO - In Our Humble Opinion

LMHO - Laughing my head off
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
LOTI - Laughing On The Inside

ROFL - Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROFLASTC - Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Ccaring The Cat
ROFLMAO - Rolling On the Floor Laughing My A** Off
ROFLMBO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Butt Off
ROFLPMP - Rolling On The floor laughing, peeing my pants!

 

[bryan27]

SA*-Sky Angel, a religious DBS provider whose main service is at the same 61.5w location as V*

FCC-Federal Communication Commission, they make DBS possible.

DMA-Designated Market Area, Used by the FCC, D* & E* to determine your television market for LIL service, and by V* to determine your local channel map.

LIL-Local In To Local, The offering of local channels via satellite to subscribers.

TP-(Also TR) Transponder, a set of frequencies on a satellite similiar to a Television Channel. DBS Transponders normally are 13-14MHz wide (TV channels are 6MHz wide)

Also, how about RGB, VGA, S-video, Y/Pr/Pb, Toslink, S/PDIF... Do you think we need to explain those as well?

I know that RGB, VGA, S-Video, Y/Pr/Pb are types of video connections. RGB is Red-Green-Blue (the colors in a television pixel), I can't remember what VGA stands for (Video something), I don't know what S-Video and Y/Pr/Pb mean. I have no idea what Toslink and S/PDIF are. Is S/PDIF something like the A-PID, V-PID, P-PID used in MPEG transmission?

 

[bbqman]

Toslink - is a connector format for fiber optic digital audio cables.

VGA - characteristics of a computer display, in particular the maximum number of colors and the maximum image resolution.

 

[Sean Mota]

I have updated the Glossary thread with most of these. Anymore?

 

[runz22]

subs--subscribers

 

[Sean Mota]

Just to remind everyone that we a Glossary of terms use in the forum. If you would like to add other terms, please add them in this thread and I will add them.

 

[voomvoom]

Lot's of Luck

LOL - Laughing Out Loud !

I'm glad I've seen this, I thought it meant Lot's of Luck.

 

[runz22]

I'm glad I've seen this, I thought it meant Lot's of Luck.

That's funny. My mom now signs her emails LOL which she thought meant Lots of Love!

 

[fredramsey]

How about the terms for PQ problems, such as mosquito noise?

 

[Ilya]

How about the terms for PQ problems, such as mosquito noise?

It's actually there, but listed under "The Gibbs Effect"

 

[riffjim4069]

Mosquito Noise Link

Mosquito Noise can be experienced by visiting the following link: Mosquito Noise

 

[citico]

FYI For your information
BTW (What does it stand for?)

 

[riffjim4069]

FYI For your information
BTW (What does it stand for?)

FYI, BTW = By The Way