Broadband Entertainment Acronyms

Acronyms

Here are a list of handy acronyms that relate to broadband entertainment:

3D - Three Dimensional
A/D - Analog to Digital
AM - Amplitude Modulation
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuits
ATSC - Advanced Television Systems Committee
CD - Compact Disc
CD-RW - Compact Disc ReWritable
CD-R - Compact Disc wRitable
CDTV - Conventional Definition Television
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
DBS - Direct Broadcast Satellite
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DTT - Digital Terrestrial Television
DTV - Digital TeleVision
DVD - Digital Versatile or Video Disc
DVD-R - DVD wRitable -
DVD-RW - DVD ReWritable -
DVD+R - DVD ReWritable +
DVD+/-R - DVD ReWritable + or -
DVI - Digital Visual Interface
DVR - Digital Video Recorder
EDTV - Enhanced Definition Television
EPG - Electronic Programming Guide
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
FM - Frequency Modulation
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
GPU - Graphical Processor Unit
HDR - Hard Disk Recorder
HD - Radio High Definition Radio
HDTV - High Definition Television
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IP - Internet Protocol
IR - InfraRed
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LCD - liquid crystal display
MORG - Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MPAA - Motion Pictures Association of America
MPC - Multimedia Personal Computer
MPEG - Motion Pictures Expert Group
MPEG-2 - Motion Pictures Expert Group-2
MPEG-4 - Motion Pictures Expert Group-4
NTSC - National Television Systems Committee
PAR - Personal Audio Recorder
PC - Personal Computer
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association or People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PVP - Personal Video Player
PVR - Personal Video Recorder
RCA - Radio Corporation of America
RF - Radio Frequency
RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America
SDRAM - Synchronous DRAM
SDTV - Standard Definition Television
SoC - Systems-on-a-Chip
USB - Universal Serial Bus
VCR - Video Cassette Recorder
VDSL - Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line
VHS - Video Home System
VOD - Video-on-Demand
VSB - Vestigial Side Band
WiFi - Wireless Fidelity
WISP - Wireless Internet Service Provider

Units of Measure

b bit (in transit)
B Byte (at rest)
Fps Frames per second
Gbps Gigabits per second
GB Gigabyte
GHz Gigahertz
Kbps Kilobits per second
Mbps Megabits per second
MB Megabyte
Mpps Megapixels per second
PB Petabyte
TB Terabyte