Short Technical Lexicon
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Glossary
Audio output Receiver sound output
AV channel slot Preferential channel location of TV set for SCART input
Decoder Decoder Unscrambling unit for pay-TV
DiSEqC Control system between receiver and LNB, multi-switch
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
Eb/No [dB] Power density per unit of information
Eb/No ratio Digital signal-to-noise ratio
LED-Display Receiver display
LNB Low Noise Block Converter
Mute Mute switch
OSD On-screen display
PAL Analogue television standard
Pay-TV Pay-TV (e.g. DF1, Premiere)
PCMCIA Standard of internal decoder interface for pay-TV
PIN Personal identification number
Receiver Receiver
RGB Video signals made up of 3 individual colour signals (red, green,
blue)
Satellite-IF signal Receiver input signal
SCART cable 21-pin connecting cable
Standby Standby
S-VHS Super Video Home System (Video recorder-Standard)
Symbol rate Transmitted data rate of satellite signal
Timer function Clock function for pre-programmed switch-on and switch-off times
Transponder See glossary
VCR connection Video recorder connection
Viterbirate See lexikon