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Must Carry - Effective at the beginning of 2002, the FCC established a condition that if a satellite service provider is going to carry one local network in a specific market place or DMA then they must carry all local networks in that market place.
National Standards and Testing Program (NSTP) - The NSTP is a program created to provide basic installation training to satellite TV install technicians.
NTSC - NTSC stands for the National Television Standards Committee, a video standard established by the United States (RCA/NBC) and adopted by numerous other countries.
National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) - This organization provides telecommunications services to rural electric and rural telephone cooperatives. If you live in a NRTC district you cannot use DIRECTV services unless you go through your local NRTC office.
OTA (Over the Air) - This is the acronym commonly used to describe standard television broadcast signals received by a rooftop antenna, sometimes called off-air.
Orbital Slots- Orbital slots refer to the location of satellites around the globe. Their are 6 main slots used for DBS TV.
Pan and Scan - A program or movie originally formatted for theatre viewing on a 16 by 9 screen is displayed on a 4 by 3 television screen.
The picture that contains the action is centered on the television screen so that all the action in the film is captured on the 4 by 3 display. This view is different from a "letterbox" (widescreen) movie, which is shown in the original theatre screen dimensions without picture format edits.
Pay Per View (PPV)- A pay-per-view event may be purchased separately from any package or subscription. This could include a movie, special event, sporting event, or an adult program.
Parental Control/LockoutParental Lockout allows users to set a password to control access to programming based on channel, rating or content.
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