channel zapping

channel-zapping

Quickly switching between channels on a TV, as while looking for a program to watch. I'm channel-zapping, but it doesn't look like anything good is on.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

channel zapping

verb
See channel hopping
See also: channel, zap
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • channel-zapping
  • zap
  • channel hopping
  • channel-hopping
  • surf the channels
  • surfer
  • surfers
  • channel surfer
  • on the bird
  • keep good time
References in periodicals archive
Huawei's Video Cloud Solution -- which currently serves more than 140 million subscribers worldwide -- enables great user experience by optimizing interactivity as fast as 0.5 seconds for channel zapping, 0.7 seconds for user interface response and 0.9 seconds for video on demand loading.
OSN and Huawei sign new IPTV partnership
Huawei's Video Cloud Solution, which currently serves more than 140mn subscribers worldwide, enables best user experience by optimising interactivity as fast as 0.5 seconds for channel zapping, 0.7 seconds for user interface response and 0.9 seconds for video on demand loading.
OSN and Huawei sign new strategic IPTV partnership
Huawei's Video Cloud Solution - which currently serves more than 140 million subscribers worldwide - enables best user experience by optimizing interactivity as fast as 0.5 seconds for channel zapping, 0.7 seconds for user interface response and 0.9 seconds for video on demand loading.
OSN and Huawei Sign New Strategic IPTV Partnership
DiffServ admission control solves the scalability issues and provides IPTV subscribers with a consistently high-quality video with a responsively reduced channel zapping delay time.
Fast Channel Navigation of Internet Protocol Television Using Adaptive Hybrid Delivery Method
Lee, "Improvement of channel zapping time in IPTV services using the adjacent groups join-leave method," in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology: Broadband Convergence Network Infrastructure, pp.
A Novel Approach to Reduce the Unicast Bandwidth of an IPTV System in a High-Speed Access Network
all interactive TV features such as TV Guide, different ways of channel zapping, channel list, recommended and similar shows and nPVR also on DVB-T/T2 channels, allowing operator to provide the best viewing experience for their users regardless of chosen transport technology
SDMC and UniqCast Partner to Deliver Hybrid DVB-T Solution to OTT and DVB Operators
ITU-T FG IPTV recommendation [1] defines the process of TV channel change from one TV channel to the other as a TV channel zapping. ITU-T G.1030 [2] recommends that digital IP television channel zapping time should not exceed the limit of 2 seconds.
Subjective and objective MOS evaluation of user's perceived quality assessment for IPTV service: a study of the experimental investigations
The techno-nemesis of this tragic mode of viewing, Pedulla suggests, isn't so much channel zapping as the video player's ability to stop, rewind, and review, which destroys destiny's irrevocable progress as inscribed in the mechanics of cinema, stamped with the "impersonality of the fate-machine."
Black Box Theory: TOM GUNNING ON GABRIELE PEDULLA'S IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Chung, "Adaptive Channel Control Scheme to Reduce Channel Zapping Time of Mobile IPTV Service," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol.
Empirical determination of the effectiveness of pre-selecting IPTV channels
New du TV service is powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, which features advanced multimedia capabilities including digital recording, video-on-demand, high-definition TV, instant channel zapping and multi-view capabilities and multi-language facility," Fareed said.
Du's HD service begins in August
For IPTV, the new test set validates services and identifies potential issues such as channel zapping delay and Program IDentifier (PID) discovery.
SUNRISE TELECOM LAUNCHES TEST SUITE FOR IPTV/VOIP DSL
Unlike analog TV, channel zapping delay increases due to the necessity of audio/video data buffering, decoding at STB and other additional signaling information.
IPTV channel zap time analysis/IPTV paslaugos kanalu perjungimo laiko analize