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@@ -10,8 +10,21 @@ Part II - Digital TV API
.. note::
- This API is also known as **DVB API**, although it is generic
- enough to support all digital TV standards.
+ This API is also known as Linux **DVB API**.
+
+ It it was originally written to support the European digital TV
+ standard (DVB), and later extended to support all digital TV standards.
+
+ In order to avoid confusion, within this document, it was opted to refer to
+ it, and to associated hardware as **Digital TV**.
+
+ The word **DVB** is reserved to be used for:
+
+ - the Digital TV API version
+ (e. g. DVB API version 3 or DVB API version 5);
+ - digital TV data types (enums, structs, defines, etc);
+ - digital TV device nodes (``/dev/dvb/...``);
+ - the European DVB standard.
**Version 5.10**
@@ -41,11 +54,11 @@ Authors:
- J. K. Metzler, Ralph <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
- - Original author of the DVB API documentation.
+ - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
- O. C. Metzler, Marcus <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
- - Original author of the DVB API documentation.
+ - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
- Carvalho Chehab, Mauro <m.chehab@kernel.org>
@@ -63,11 +76,11 @@ Revision History
DocBook improvements and cleanups, in order to document the system calls
on a more standard way and provide more description about the current
-DVB API.
+Digital TV API.
:revision: 2.0.4 / 2011-05-06 (*mcc*)
-Add more information about DVB APIv5, better describing the frontend
+Add more information about DVBv5 API, better describing the frontend
GET/SET props ioctl's.
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