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| NAB |
National Association of Broadcasters |
| NTSC |
National Television System Committee, a format of analog video,
with 525 lines, 30 frames/sec, and interlacing (60 fields/sec) |
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| PAL |
Phase Alteration by Line, a format of analog video, with 625 lines, 25 frames/sec, and interlacing (50 fields/sec) |
| PCM |
Pulse code modulation |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format; a format for structured documents
with images and graphics for use of display and printing,
developed by Adobe. |
| PDWG |
Portable Device Working Group, formed by
SDMI to define compliant portable devices. |
| Pixel |
Picture element, a point of a digitized image.
The maximum number of pixels in current DVD-video is 720*480
for NTSC and 720*576 for PAL in horizontal*vertical. |
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| RealNetworks |
A company for media delivery on the Internet. See http://www.real.com.
On April 12, 1999, it and IBM announced an agreement to develop
an application that enables consumers to receive and process music
and related data from the Internet by using IBM security features. |
| RIAA |
Recording Industry Association of America |
| RIAJ |
Recording Industry Association of Japan |
| Robustness Rules |
Rules that licensed products must meet in order to resist
attempts at modification aimed at overriding their functions. |
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| Secrecy |
Prevention of unauthorized disclosure |
| SDMI |
Secure Digital Music Initiative, a framework for working with
the technical community to create a voluntary digital music
security specification. See http://www.sdmi.org/ |
| SECAM |
Sequence Electronique Couleur avec Memoire, a format of analog video, with
625 lines, 25 frames/sec, and interlacing (50 fields/sec). French color television system. |
| SMPTE |
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| STB |
Set-top box, a cable converter box for the home terminals of
an interactive, digital, multimedia highway. |
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| TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format. |
| Threats |
Potential circumstances that may cause loss of or harm to assets. |
| Transparency |
Invisibility and inaudibility of watermarking. |
| TRL |
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory |
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| UPC |
Universal Product Code, 12-digit numeric code that will identify a consumer. |
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| VBR |
Variable bit rate for MPEG-2 compression |
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| WaRP |
Watermark Review Panel for DVD video,
a group under the DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. |
| WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organization |
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