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The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3c.org/). The international body that governs Internet standards.
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ISAN combined with a version identifier to provide a globally unique identifier of the version of an audiovisual work
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A virtual channel number is the designation that is recognized by the user as the single entity that will provide access to an analog TV programming or a set of one or more digital elementary streams. It is called “virtual” because its identification (name and number) may be defined independently from its physical location.
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A virtual channel is the designation, usually a number, that is recognized by the user as the single entity that will provide access to an analog TV program or a set of one or more digital elementary streams. It is called “virtual” because its identification (name and number) may be defined independently from its physical […]
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A virtual channel is the designation, usually a number, that is recognized by the user as the single entity that will provide access to an analog TV program or a set of one or more digital elementary streams. It is called “virtual” because its identification (name and number) may be defined independently from its physical […]
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The person using a receiver to view the virtual channel.
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A video sequence is represented by a sequence header, one or more groups of pictures, and an end_of_sequence code in the data stream.
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A hypothetical decoder that is conceptually connected to the output of an encoder. Its purpose is to provide a constraint on the variability of the data rate that an encoder can produce.
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A number that increments each time there is a change in a referenced table.
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An acronym for Vertical Blanking Interval, which is composed of the first 21 horizontal lines in each NTSC field. These lines are not intended to be directly displayed by a receiver. In digital systems, the VBI does not exist.
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