19.1 What do common BD and related acronyms and abbreviations stand for?
19.1 What do common BD and related acronyms and abbreviations stand for?
As is the case with all technologies, BD possesses its own technical and marketing jargon and is awash in a sea of acronyms and abbreviations. BD shares a great deal of terminology with DVD, CD and other forms of optical storage but also employs a new vocabulary, including short forms, to describe its unique abilities, features and characteristics (see table).
BD and Related Acronyms and Abbreviations
| Acronym/Abbreviation | Description |
| 17PP | 17 Parity preserve/Prohibit Repeated Minimum Transition Run-length |
| AACS | Advanced Access Content System |
| ADA-R | Advanced Disc for Archive Recordable |
| ADA-RE | Advanced Disc for Archive Rewritable |
| ADIP | Address in Pre-groove |
| ANSI | American National Standard Institute |
| APC | Automatic Power Control |
| ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee |
| AVC | Advanced Video Coding |
| BCA | Burst Cutting Area |
| BD | Blu-ray Disc |
| BDA | Blu-ray Disc Association |
| BDCMF | Blu-ray Disc Cutting Master Format |
| BDF | Blu-ray Disc Founders |
| BD-FE | Blu-ray Disc Format Extension |
| BDXL | Blu-ray Disc High Capacity |
| BD-J | Blu-ray Disc Java |
| BD-R | Blu-ray Disc Recordable |
| BD-R XL | Blu-ray Disc Recordable High Capacity |
| BD-DSD | Blu-ray Double-Sided Disc |
| BD-R/RE AV | BD-R/RE Audio Visual |
| BD-RE | Blu-ray Disc Rewritable |
| BD-RE XL | Blu-ray Disc Rewritable High Capacity |
| BD-ROM | Blu-ray Disc Read-Only Memory |
| BD-ROM AV | BD-ROM Audio Visual |
| BoD | Board of Directors |
| CAV | Constant Angular Velocity |
| CBR | Constant Bitrate |
| CC | Compliance Committee |
| CCI | Copy Control Information |
| CCSC | Compliance Committee Steering Council |
| CD-R | Compact Disc Recordable |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CD-RW | Compact Disc Rewritable |
| CE | Consumer Electronics |
| CHT | Content Hash Table |
| CLV | Constant Linear Velocity |
| CNR | Carrier-to-Noise Ratio |
| CMP | Common Media Package |
| Codec | Compressor/decompressor |
| CPA | Content Participant Agreement |
| CPAL | Content Participant Agreement Light |
| CPS | Content Protection System |
| CPTWG | Copy Protection Technical Working Group |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CRL | Content Revocation List |
| CRL | Constrained Self-Encoded Stream Format |
| DDS | Disc Definition Structure |
| DDWG | Digital Display Working Group |
| DfE | Data for Export |
| DFL | Defect List |
| DI | DI |
| DL | Dual-Layer |
| DMA | Disc Management Area |
| DMS | Disc/Defect Management Structure |
| DOT | Digital Only Token |
| DVD-R | DVD-Recordable |
| DVD-RAM | DVD Rewritable |
| DVD-ROM | DVD Read-Only Memory |
| DVD-RW | DVD Re-recordable |
| DVI | Digital Visual Interface |
| DVR | Digital Video Recording |
| EB | Emergency Brake |
| ECC | Error Correction Code |
| EDAC | Error Detection and Correction |
| EICTA | European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association |
| eSATA | External Serial ATA |
| FLLA | Format and Logo License Agreement |
| FSP | Final Standard Profile |
| GIPWoG | Government Information Preservation Working Group |
| GPC | Global Promotion Committee |
| GPR | General Purpose Register |
| HD | High Definition |
| HDCP | High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface |
| HDMV | High Definition Movie |
| HDR | High Dynamic Range |
| HEVC | High Efficiency Video Coding |
| HMW | Harmonic Modulated Wave |
| HtL | High-to-Low |
| i-MSLE | Integrated-Maximum Likelihood Sequence Error Estimation |
| IA | Information Agreement |
| ICT | Image Constraint Token |
| ID | Inner Diameter |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IH-BD | Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc |
| ISA | Inner Spare Area |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Initial Standard Profile |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| JTC | Joint Technical Committee |
| L&LC | Legal & Licensing Committee |
| L0 | Layer 0 |
| L1 | Layer 1 |
| LLA | Logo License Agreement |
| LOW | Logical Overwrite |
| LPCM | Linear Pulse Code Modulation |
| LSN | Logical Sector Number |
| LtH | Low-to-High |
| MKB | Media Key Block |
| MMC | Multi-Media Command Set |
| MPEG | Moving Pictures Expert Group |
| MPEG-2 TS | MPEG-2 Transport Stream |
| MSK | Minimum Shift Keying |
| MW | Monotone Wobbles |
| NA | Numerical Aperture |
| NWL | Nominal Wobble Length |
| OD | Outer Diameter |
| OPC | Optimum Power Control |
| OPU | Optical Pickup Unit |
| OSR | Outer Spare Area |
| OSTA | Optical Storage Technology Association |
| PATA | Parallel ATA |
| PES | Packetized Elementary Stream |
| PIC | Permanent Information and Control data |
| PiP | Picture-in-Picture |
| POW | Pseudo Overwrite |
| PP | Push-Pull |
| PSN | Physical Sector Number |
| PSR | Player Status Register |
| PTM | Phase Transition Mastering |
| RMF | ROM-Mark Flag |
| RPC | Regional Playback Control |
| RREF | Real-time Recording and Editing Format |
| RRM | Random Recording Mode |
| RRT | Round Robin Testing |
| SATA | Serial ATA |
| SBM | Space Bit Map |
| SCG | System Compatibility Group |
| SD | Standard Definition |
| SESF | Self-Encoded Stream Format |
| SFF | Small Form Factor Committee |
| SL | Single-Layer |
| SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SRM | Sequential Recording Mode |
| SRM+POW | Sequential Recording Mode + Pseudo Overwrite |
| SRM-POW | Sequential Recording Mode – Pseudo Overwrite |
| SDR | Standard Dynamic Range |
| STW | Sawtooth Wobble |
| TDMA | Temporary Disc Management Area |
| TDMS | Temporary Disc Management Structure |
| TEG | Technical Expert Group |
| TF | Task Force |
| THD | Total Hi Def |
| TSG | Test Specification Group |
| TTF | Technical Task Force |
| UDF | Universal Disc Format |
| VBR | Variable Bitrate |
| VESA | Video Electronics Standards Association |
| VFS | Virtual File System |
| VI | Volume Identifier |
| VSG | Verification Service Group |
| WG | Working Group |
| ZCLV | Zoned Constant Linear Velocity |