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  2. Closed captioning - Wikipedia

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    The term closed indicates that the captions are not visible until activated by the viewer, usually via the remote control or menu option. On the other hand, the terms open, burned-in, baked on, hard-coded, or simply hard indicate that the captions are visible to all viewers as they are embedded in the video.

  3. CTA-708 - Wikipedia

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    With the digital video frames, they also include more of the Latin-1 character set, and include stubs to support full UTF-32 captions, and downloadable fonts. CTA-708 caption streams can also encapsulate EIA-608 byte pairs internally, a fairly common usage. [1] CTA-708 captions are used in MPEG-2 video streams in the picture user data. The ...

  4. Electronic program guide - Wikipedia

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    In 1981, United Video Satellite Group launched the first EPG service in North America, a cable channel known simply as The Electronic Program Guide.It allowed cable systems in the United States and Canada to provide on-screen listings to their subscribers 24 hours a day (displaying programming information up to 90 minutes in advance) on a dedicated cable channel.

  5. Roku OS - Wikipedia

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    In April 2024, the Roku OS was reported to be the TV operating system with the largest share of TVs sold in the U.S. and Mexico during January-March 2024, accounting for approximately 40% of sales in each country. [26] In the same month, Roku OS 13 was released. The OS update was announced for all Roku TV models and many Roku streaming players.

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    Amazon Prime Video — access to a whole library of TV and movie content for Prime members. Without Prime, you can watch select TV and movies on Amazon Freevee, as well as original content created ...

  8. Set-top box - Wikipedia

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    A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, [1] is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into ...

  9. Teletext - Wikipedia

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    Teletext was created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s by John Adams, Philips' lead designer for video display units to provide closed captioning to television shows for the hearing impaired. [6] Public teletext information services were introduced by major broadcasters in the UK, [7] starting with the BBC's Ceefax service in 1974. [8]