DCB may stand for:

DCB: Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath; DCB: Data Control Block, a data structure for accessing data sets on IBM mainframes. ; DCB: David Crowder Band, a christian rock band. ; DCB: Dichlorobenzene ; DCB: Dictionary of Canadian Biography ; DCB:Digital Control Bus, a proprietary MIDI-like interface by Roland Corporation ; DCB: Division of Cancer Biology ; DCB:Division of Computational Bioscience.

VDC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, the most common is volts (V) of continous current (direct current (DC)), in contrast to VAC.

Care must be taken not to connect DC devices (such as DC electrical motors) to alternating current (AC) sources, as DC devices can be seriously damaged by doing so. The voltage itself is also important, as a device must never be connected to a power supply generating a higher voltage than the device is rated to handle.

Other uses include:

Valve Developer Community, the official wiki for developers of games and mods based on the popular computer game Half-Life 2.
VDC is used as an acronym for "Video Display Controller", as with the 8563 VDC and 8568 [D]VDC computer graphics chips of the 1980s.
Virtual Digital Cable, or VDC, an acronym for a media and technology company delivering television to desktop computers and mobile devices.
The Victoria day celebration.
Vietnam Day Committee, an anti-war group formed at Berkeley, California in spring 1965 by activist Jerry Rubin.
VDC is an acronym for "Velocity Drift Chamber", a drift chamber (a kind of particle detector) to test a gas by determination of the drift velocity of electrons.
VDC is an acronym for "Vehicle Dynamic Control", an electronic means of aiding vehicle stability. Also known as Electronic Stability Control.
VDC is an acronym for "Via de Cristo", This is a Spanish phrase meaning "Way of Christ." VIA de CRISTO is a highly structured three day weekend designed to strengthen and renew the faith of Christian people and bring them to a new awareness of living in God's grace. It is a combined effort of lay people and clergy toward renewal of the church.
VDC is an acronym for "Village Development Committee", political division of an area, in Nepal.
VDC is an acronym for "Virtual Design and Construction", the process of using 3D modeling software to design and evaluate construction processes before actual construction. Generally used as cost analysis tool in the pre-construction processes, but is currently being refined to be used as a tool for building life management. Also reference Building Information Modeling

 

Video Digital Cable Broadcast

VDC Corporation, based in Northbrook, Illinois, is a multichannel video programming distributor, delivering live cable television through broadband connected computers in the United States. They develop and are involved in the distribution and delivery of live cable television programming channels.

VDC Corporation was founded in 2002 by Scott Wolf. VDC was a pioneer in the delivery of live cable programming to mobile devices. The company transitioned its mobile product to the delivery of live cable television to desktop computers with their Virtual Digital Cable service launched in April of 2006.

In January of 2007, VDC made public its decision to file a Program Access complaint with the FCC to commence a proceeding to obtain enforcement of the program access rules under the 1992 Cable TV Consumer Protection Act, to ensure vertically integrated programming providers sell their programming to VDC. Such providers include Time Warner (CNN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, HBO), Liberty Media, (Discovery Channel), Cablevision (Rainbow) and Comcast (E!, Golf Channel).

Congress attempted to encourage growth and competition in the vertically integrated cable marketplace with the 1992 Cable TV Consumer Protection Act. Using the internet, VDC has brought diversity and increased competition to the marketpalce:

"The term ‘multichannel video programming distributor’ means an entity engaged in the business of making available for purchase, by subscribers or customers, multiple channels of video programming. Such entities include, but are not limited to, a cable operator, a multichannel multipoint distribution service, a direct broadcast satellite service, a television receive-only satellite program distributor, and a satellite master antenna television system operator, as well as buying groups or agents of all such entities." [1]

VDC's complaint with the FCC was filed against Turner Broadcasting System[2] to force Turner into compliance with the 1992 Cable Act and to recognize VDC as an MVPD. This would grant VDC mandatory access to broadcast Turner's programming on VDC's MVPD system.

The FCC debate also raises regulatory and broadcast issues involving net neutrality.

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