EACEM

European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers

EDTV

Extended (or Enhanced) Definition Television. A television system that offers picture quality substantially improved over conventional 525-line or 625-line receivers, by employing techniques at the transmitter and at the receiver that are transparent to (and cause no visible quality degradation to) existing 525-line or 625-line receivers. One example of EDTV is the improved separation of luminance and colour components by pre-combing the signals prior to transmission.

Entropy

Entropy, the average amount of information represented by a symbol in a message, is a function of the model used to produce that message and can be reduced by increasing the complexity of the model so that it better reflects the actual distribution of source symbols in the original message.

Entropy is a measure of the information contained in message, it's the lower bound for compression.

ESAC

Economics and Statistics Advisory Committee

ESPRIT

European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology

ETSI

European Telecommunication Standard Institute

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06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
FRANCE

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Route des Lucioles
Sophia Antipolis
Valbonne
FRANCE

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