Dealing with new terms of business may be time-consuming. In the following guide, we offer the most common television business terminology to get introduced to the subject.
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DTH
Direct-To-Home television is the reception of satellite programmes with a personal dish in an individual home.
HFC
Hybrid fiber-coaxial is a telecommunications industry term for a broadband network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable. It has been employed globally by cable television operators since the early 1990s
CATV
Iis often used for cable television. It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television’s origins in 1948. In areas where over-the-air TV reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large “community antennas” were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.
DTT
Digital terrestrial television is a technological evolution of broadcast television and an advancement over analog television. A terrestrial implementation of digital television technology uses an aerial to broadcast to a conventional television antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable television connection.
VOD
Video on demand allows users to browse and watch/listen to video content such as movies and TV shows at the moment they choose to, rather than having to watch at a specific broadcast time.
IPTV
Internet Protocol television is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats. IPTV services may be classified into three main groups:
- Live television and live media, with or without related interactivity;
- Time-shifted media: e.g. catch-up TV (replays a TV show that was broadcast hours or days ago), start-over TV (replays the current TV show from its beginning);
- Video on demand (VOD): browse and view items in a stored media catalog.
LINEAR
Live television that is watched as scheduled; stands in contrast to pre-recorded or video on demand (VOD).
STB
The set-top box is the device that enables a subscriber view pay channels. This instrument decodes signals from the cable operator for viewing a pay channel.
CAS
The conditional access system, which is a digital mode of transmitting TV channels through an STB. The transmission signals are encrypted and viewers need to buy a set-top box to receive and decrypt the signal. The STB is required to watch only pay channels, not free-to-air channels.
PPV
Pay-per-view is a type of pay television service by which a subscriber of a television service provider can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone ordering it (as opposed to video-on-demand systems, which allow viewers to see recorded broadcasts at any time).
DRM
Digital rights management is a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies try to control the use, modification, and distribution of copyrighted works (such as software and multimedia content), as well as systems within devices that enforce these policies.
Video OTT
It’s a distribution model based on the internet. OTT stands for Over The Top
This method of delivering content over the internet allows the subscribers to get independent from the device, because it can not only watch the content in a smart TV but also in a PC, Mobile or Tablet.
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