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Advanced Television System Committee |
ATSC
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An international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television |
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Advanced Television Research Consortium |
ATRC
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The organization - consisting of The David Sarnoff Research Center, NBC, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and the North American Philips Corporation - developed high-definition television (HDTV) standards for the United States |
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Digital Video Broadcasting |
DVB
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DVB is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The standards can be obtained for free at the ETSI website after registration |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IEEE
| An international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 360,000 members in around 175 countries |
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Internet Streaming Media Alliance |
ISMA
| It is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to accelerate the market adoption of open standards for streaming and progressive download of rich media over all types of Internet Protocols (IP). The ISMA is a diverse alliance with representatives from all points of the streaming work-flow |
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International Organization for Standardization |
ISO
| An international standard-setting body composed of representatives from national standards bodies. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization produces world-wide industrial and commercial standards, the so-called ISO standards |
| International Telecommunication Union |
ITU
| An international organization established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications |
| Joint Photographic Experts Group |
JPEG
| In computing, JPEG is a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. JPEG is used for lossy compression of images, although, variations on the standard baseline JPEG allow for lossless compression |
| Moving Picture Experts Group |
MPEG
| A working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. Its first meeting was in May of 1988 in Ottawa, Canada. As of late 2005, MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions. MPEG's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 |
| National Association of Broadcasters |
NAB
| The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association that advocates on behalf of more than 8,300 free, local radio and television stations and also broadcast networks before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the Courts |
| Society for Cinema and Media Studies |
SCMS
| An organization of professors and scholars. Its home office is at the University of Oklahoma, but it has members throughout the world |
| Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers |
SCTE
| An organization that develops training for cable television installers and engineers; in this role it is analogous to the Society of Broadcast Engineers for broadcast television. SCTE is also an ANSI-recognized standards-developing organization for the cable industry |
| Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
SMPTE
| An international professional association, based in the United States, of engineers working in the motion imaging industries. An internationally-recognized standards developing organization, SMPTE has over 400 standards, Recommended Practices and Engineering Guidelines for television, motion pictures, digital cinema, audio and medical imaging. In addition to development and publication of standards documents, SMPTE publishes a journal, provides assistance to members with employment, and performs other industry-related functions |
| University Film and Video Association |
UFVA
| An organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. Based in the U.S., it has members throughout the world |
| Video Electronics Standards Association |
VESA
| An international standards' body, founded in the late 1980s by NEC Home Electronics and eight other video display adapter manufacturers. The initial goal was to produce a standard for 800x600 resolution video displays |
| Video Services Forum, Inc |
VSF
| An international association composed of service providers, users and manufacturers dedicated to interoperability, quality metrics and education for video networking technologies |
| Video Quality Experts Group |
VQEG
| A group of experts from various backgrounds and affiliations, including participants from several internationally recognized organizations, working in the field of video quality assessment |
