DTV (Digital TeleVision)

Referring to television in digital, rather than analog, form. As is the case

with digital communications, in general, DTV offers the advantages of enhanced bandwidth efficiency through compression, improved signal quality due to reduced noise, and enhanced overall management and control. DTV does not suffer from the ghosting, snowy images, and generally poor audio quality associated with analog TV. Issues of signal quality in DTV transmission manifest in artifacts such as blocking, or tiling, and stuttering. Digital video content benefits from enhanced processing, storage, and manipulation.

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• AS (Autonomous System)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• Ashbacker Radio Corporation vs. the FCC
• Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC)
• ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit)
• ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying)
• ASP (Application Service Provider)
• aspect ratio
• assured forwarding (AF)
• asymmetric
• asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL)
• asynchronous
• asynchronous balanced mode (ABM)
• asynchronous connectionless link (ACL)
• asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
• asynchronous transmission
• asynchronous transmission
• AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph)
• AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph)
• AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs)
• AT&T Technologies
• ATIS
• ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions)