| ACIRC | Advanced Cross Interleave Reed Solomon Code
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| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format
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| AIM | American Interactive Media
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| AMS | Auto Music Scan
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| ANSI | American National Standardization Institute
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| API | Application Programming Interface
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| APU | Audio Processing Unit
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| ASCF | Application Specific Coding Flag
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| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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| BER | Bit Error Rate
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| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System
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| BMS | Background Music Services (or System)
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| BRR | Bit Rate Reduction
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| CARIN | Car Information and Navigation
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| CAV | Constant Angular Velocity
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| CBT | Computer Based Training
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| CD | Compact Disc
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| CDCU | Compact Disc Control Unit
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| CDD | Compact Disc Drive
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| CD-DA | Compact Disc Digital Audio
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| CD-DV | Compact Disc Digital Video
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| CD-E | Compact Disc Eresable
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| CDFM | Compact Disc File Manager
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| CD+G | Compact Disc + Graphics
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| CD-i | Compact Disc Interactive
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| CD-R | Compact Disc Recordable
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| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read Only Memory
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| CD-ROM/XA | Compact Disc Read Only Memory eXtended Architecture
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| CD-RTOS | Compact Disc RealTime Operating System
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| CD-RW | Compact Disc ReWritable
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| CDTV | Commodore Dynamic Total Vision
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| CDV | CD Video
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| CD-WO | Compact Disc Write Once
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| CIRC | Cross Interleave Reed Solomon Code
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| CLUT | Color Look Up Table
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| CLV | Constant Linguar Velocity
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| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check
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| CSD | Configuration Status Discriptor
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| CSPS | Constrained System Parameter Stream
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| CVBS | Composite Video Broadcast Signal
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| D2B | Domestic Digital Bus
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| DAT | Digital Audio Tape
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| DAVID | Digital Audio Video Interactive Decoder
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| DCP | Display Control Program
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| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform
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| DMS | Denshi Media Services
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| DO | Digital Out
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| DOR | Digital Optical Recording
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| DPCM | Delta Pulse Code Modulation
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| DSD | in CD-i: Device Status Descriptor, in SACD: Direct Stream Digital
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| DSP | Digital Signal Processing
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| DV | Digital Video
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| DVC | Digital Video Cartridge
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| DVD | Digital Versitile Disc
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| DVI | Digital Video Interactive
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| DYUV | Delta YUV
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| EB | Electronic Book
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| ECC | Error Correction Code
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| EDC | Error Detection Code
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| EFM | Eight to Fourteen Modulation
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| EOF | End Of File
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| EOR | End Of Record
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| FAT | File Allocation Table
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| FFGB | Full Functional Green Book
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| FMV | Full Motion Video
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| FPS | Favourite Picture Selection
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| FSFMV | Full Screen Full Motion Video
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| FSVD | File Structure Volume Discriptor
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| FTS | Favourite Track Selection
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| GF | Goloia Field
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| HDTV | High Definition Television
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| IFF | Interchange File Format
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| ILV | Interactive LaserVision
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| ILVAS | Interactive LaserVision Authoring System
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| IMS | Interactive Media Systems
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| IR | Infra Red
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| ISRC | International Standard Recording Code
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| IV | Interactive Video
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| IXP | Information Exchange Protocol
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| JEIDA | Japan Electronics Industry Development Association
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| JIM | Japan Interactive Media
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| Laser | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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| LBN | Logical Block Number
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| LD | Laser Disc
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| LSB | Least Significant Bit
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| LV | LaserVision
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| LV-ROM | LaserVision Read Only Memory
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| MD | MiniDisc
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| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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| MM | Multimedia
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| MMC | Multimedia Controller
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| MOD | Magneto Optical Disc
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| MPDC | Motorola Philips Design Centre
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| MPEG | Moving Pictures Expert Group
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| MSB | Most Significant Bit
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| MUSE | Multiple Subniquist Encoding
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| NMS | New Media Systems
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| NRF | NV-RAM Filemanager
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| NTSC | National Television Standards Committee
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| NV-RAM | Non-volatile Random Access Memory
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| OCDIS | Official CD-I Studio
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| OMS | Optical Media Systems
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| OR | Optical Recording
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| OS | Operating System
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| OS-9 | Operating System 9
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| PAL | Phase Alteration Line
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| PASC | Precission Adaptive Subband Coding
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| PCD | Photo CD
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| PCL | Play Control List
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| PCM | Pulse Code Modulation
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| PDO | Philips and Dupont Optical Company
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| PIMA | Philips Interactive Media of America
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| PIME | Philips Interactive Media Europe
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| POI | Point Of Information
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| POP | Point Of Purchase
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| POS | Point Of Sale
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| QHY | Quantisized High Y
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| RC | Remote Control
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| RGB | Red Green Blue
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| RLE | Run Lenght Encoding
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| ROM | Ready Only Memory
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| RS | Remote Signal
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| RTCA | Real Time Control Area
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| RTOS | Real Time Operating System
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| RTR | Real Time Record
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| RTRI | Real Time Record Interpretor
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| SACD | Super Audio CD
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| SAT | Stanford Archivement Test
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| SCMS | Single Copy Management System
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| SCR | System Clock Reference
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| SCSI | Small Computer Standard Interface
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| Secam | Systeme Electronique Couleurs a Memoire
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| STD | System Target Decoder
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| SVCD | Super Video CD
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| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format
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| TOC | Table Of Contents
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| TS | Time Stamp
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| UCM | User Communications Manager
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| VBV | Video Buffering Verifier
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| VCD | Video CD
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| VDP | Video Display Processor
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| VDSQ | Video Data Sequence
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| VIS | Video Information System
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| VT | Video Terminal
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| WORM | Write Once Read Many times
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