THX
Named after a sound engineer (Tom Holman Experiment) Lucasfilm has developed a specification for mixing and restoration of soundtracks of films. The goal is to obtain a final result as close as possible to the original intended by the director. It is therefore not a coding sound but "a quality label.
ICT
Acronym for "Information Technology and Communication". It also speaks of ICT, "New Technologies of Information and Communication: email, instant messaging, SMS, MMS ...
TNT
Acronym TV Digital Land. It will allow homes connected to a antenna "rake" (ie more than three quarters of French households) received an offer of more than thirty public and private channels, national and local digital quality. The digital process will be spending five or six channels frequencyWhere theAnalog not allowed to make only one pass.
To receive digital channels, the homes will have to equip their sets with an adapter (for a price that should be between 80 and 100 euros), less than half of habitats collective and individual, tailor Conventional rakes antenna (at an average cost of 60 euros per household). It is also possible to receive the offer of TNT through the acquisition of an integrated digital television. More than half of new channels will be available free.
In France, the first free channels issue from March 31, 2005: 14 free channels, including 6 public channels - France 2, France 3, France 5, Arte, La Chaîne parlementaire, France 4 (eg Festival), 9 private channels -- whose general TF1, M6, Canal +, TMC, NT1 (AB), Direct8 (Bolloré), NRJ TV and music M6 Music. They use standard MPEG-2.
For cons the pay channels (first emissions 1 September 2005, 15 pay channels: Canal +, Paris Première, Match TV, news channels I and LCI-TV, Channel documentary Planet, CinémaCinémaPremier, TPS Star, Sport and Sport + Eurosport, TF6, a youth channel Canal J, AB1; Comedy and Cuisine TV) use the MPEG-4, Standard giving better image quality, but their deployment will likely be longer.
View map of emission sites of DTT in France (PDF)
Telepoint
Land mobile telephone in which base stations, public or private, serve as an intermediary to mobile phones to communicate among themselves or with the Switched Telephone Network.
Pointel telepoint means the service of France Telecom.
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