| AD | analog-digital |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| AM | Amplituden-Modulation |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| B-Bild | Bidirektional prädiziertes Bild |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| B-ISDN | Broadband-ISDN |
| BSS | Broadcast Satellite Service |
| C | Chrominanz |
| CA | Conditional Access |
| CAT | Conditional Access Table |
| CATV | Cable Television |
| CCIR | Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications |
| CCITT | Comité Consultatif International de Télégraphique et Téléphonique |
| CI | Common Interface |
| C/N | Carrier / Noise |
| COFDM | Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| DBS | Direct Broadcast Satellite |
| DCT | Discrete Cosinus Transformation |
| DEMUX | DEMUltipleXer |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier Transformation |
| DSC | Digital Serial Components |
| DTH | Direct To Home |
| DTO | Direct To Office |
| DTS | Decoding Time Stamp |
| DTVB | Digital Tele Vision Broadcastimg |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcasting |
| ECM | Entitlement Control Messages |
| EDTV | Enhanced Definition Tele Vision |
| EIRP | Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power |
| EIT | Event Information Table |
| EMM | Entitlement Management Messages |
| ES | Elementary Stream |
| ETS | European Telecommunication Standard |
| FBAS | Farbe, Bild, Austastung, Synchronisation |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transformation |
| FSS | Fixed Satellite Service |
| GOP | Group Of Pictures |
| HDTV | High Definition Tele Vision |
| HF | Hoch-Frequenz |
| HFC | Hybrid Fiber/Coax |
| HIFI | High Fidelity |
| I | Inphase |
| I-Bild | Intraframe codiertes Bild |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IMUX | InputMUltipleXer |
| IRD | Integrated Receiver Decoder |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISI | Inter-Symbol Interference |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| JND | Just Noticable Differences |
| LDTV | Low Definition Tele Vision |
| LNA | Low Noise Amplifier |
| LNB | Low Noise Block |
| LNC | Low Noise Converter |
| MAC | Multiplexed Analogue Components |
| MOS | Mean Opinion Score |
| MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group |
| MSE | Mean Squared Error |
| MUX | MUltipleXer |
| NIT | Network Information Table |
| NTSC | National Television System Committee |
| NRZ | Non-Return-to-Zero |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex |
| OMUX | Output MUltipleXer |
| PAL | Phase Alternation Line |
| PAT | Program Association Table |
| P-Bild | Prädiziertes Bild |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PCR | Program Clock Reference |
| PES | Packetized Elementary Stream |
| PID | Packet IDentification |
| PLL | Phase-Locked Loop |
| PMT | Program Map Table |
| PPC | Pay Per Channel |
| PPV | Pay Per View |
| PRBS | Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence |
| PSI | Program Specific Information |
| PSK | Phase Shift Keying |
| PSNR | Peak Signal to Noise Ratio |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
| PTS | Presentation Time Stamp |
| QAM | Quadratur-Amplituden-Modulation |
| QEF | Quasi Error Free |
| QPSK | Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| RDS | Radio Data System |
| RGB | Rot-Grün-Blau |
| RS | Reed-Solomon |
| SCART | Syndicat des Constructeurs dŒAppareils Radio récepteurs et Téléviseur |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| SDTV | Standard Definition Tele Vision |
| SECAM | SEquentiel Couleur A Mémoire |
| SES | Société Européenne des Satellites |
| SI | Service Information |
| SIF | Source Input Format |
| SMATV | Satellite Master Antenna Tele Vision |
| SMS | Subscriber Management System |
| S/N | Signal / Noise |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SP | Service Provider |
| STB | Set-Top-Box |
| STM | Synchronous Transport Module |
| TS | Transport Stream |
| TWTA | Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier |
| UKW | Ultra-Kurz-Welle |
| VCR | Video Cassette Recorder |
| VPS | Video Programm-System |
| Y | Luminanz |
| ZF | Zwischen-Frequenz |
