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Glossary

Term

Description

Decoder

A unit containing the electronic circuitry necessary to decode encrypted
signals. Some Decoders are separate from the receiver but in satellite TV
broadcasting, the term is often used interchangeably as a name for an
Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD). The term IRD, or IRD / Decoder, is
usually associated with satellite TV broadcasting while Cable systems are
based on Converters or on Set-Top Boxes / Converters.

Differential Coding

Method of coding using the difference between the value of a sample
and a predicted value.

DIL

Dual In Line:

The most common type of package for small and medium

scale integrated circuit

. The pins hang vertically from the two long sides

of the rectangular package, spaced at intervals of 0.1 inch.

DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung:

German Standards Institute.

Downlink

The part of the satellite communications circuit that extends from the
satellite to an Earth station.

Downconverter

A unit containing the electronic circuitry necessary to transform the
carrier frequency of a broadcast transport stream from a high (radio)
frequency - suitable for long-distance transmission - to a low
(intermediate) frequency - suitable for extraction of the data.

DSNG

Digital Satellite News-Gathering.

DTE

Data circuit Terminating Equipment:

A classification of equipment used

by the RS-232 standard (and others) to identify equipment types and
their communications interface requirements. A communications device
that originates (is the source) or is the end receiving unit (destination) of
signals on a network. It is typically a terminal or computer.

DTH

Direct-To-Home.

The term used to describe uninterrupted transmission

from the satellite directly to the subscriber, that is, no intermediary cable
or terrestrial network utilised.

DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting:

A European project which defines

transmission standards for digital broadcasting systems using satellite
(

DVB-S

), cable (

DVB-C

) and terrestrial (

DVB-T

) medium, created by the

EP-DVB group and approved by the ITU. It specifies modulation, error

correction, etc. (see EN 300 421 for satellite, EN 300 429 for cable and
EN 300 744 for terrestrial).

DVB-S2

Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite – Second Generation:

enhanced specification to replace the DVB-S standard, developed in
2003 and ratified by ETSI (EN 302307) in March 2005. The development of
DVB-S2 coincided with the introduction of HDTV and H.264 (MPEG-4
AVC) video codecs. The system allows transmission of one or more
MPEG-2 audio/video streams, using QPSK or 8PSK or MAPSK (M-ary

amplitude and phase shift keying) modulation with concatenated
encoding.

DVB SI

Digital Video Broadcasting Service Information.

DVB-PI DVB-Professional

Interfaces:

TTV Lan search shows – DVB Physical

Interfaces

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