Term

macroblock

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

In the advanced television system a macroblock consists of four blocks of luminance and one each Cr and Cb block.

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low frequency effects (lfe) channel

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

An optional single channel of limited (<120 Hz) bandwidth, which is intended to be reproduced at a level +10 dB with respect to the fbw channels. The optional lfe channel allows high sound pressure levels to be provided for low frequency sounds.

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loudness

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A perceptual quantity; the magnitude of the physiological effect produced when a sound stimulates the ear.

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long form content

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

Show or program related material or essence. The typical duration is greater than approximately two to three minutes.

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local policy

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A set of rules for determining grantable permissions based on conditions defined by both the receiver manufacturer and the end-user.

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local M/H service

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A Service which appears in one and only one MH Broadcast. Typically this is a Service created by a local broadcaster which will not be transmitted by another broadcast facility other than a repeater.

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local file system

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

The file system provided by the local receiver platform.

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linked

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

Alternative elements of a Program are “Linked” when they have identical values in the linked_component_tag field of their Enhanced Signaling Descriptors.

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line

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A specification of a given television scanning line number, defined in different image format standards. For NTSC, the line numbers are as defined by Figure 7 of SMPTE 170M.

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level

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

The abstracted dimension that is used to refer to the size of the data elementary buffer in the transport system target decoder governing the delivery of data access units of a data service.

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