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  2. FTA receiver - Wikipedia

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    A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.

  3. DTV receiver - Wikipedia

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    A DTV receiver will normally contain three separate decoders for converting the digital bit-stream back into a format that can be heard and viewed by the subscriber. A video decoder It transforms video packets into a sequence of pictures, which are displayed by the TV monitor. An audio decoder It decompresses the audio bit-stream. Different ...

  4. Digital television adapter - Wikipedia

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    A digital TV converter box. A digital television adapter (DTA), commonly known as a converter box or decoder box, is a television tuner that receives a digital television (DTV) transmission, and converts the digital signal into an analog signal that can be received and displayed on an analog television set.

  5. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    A number of satellite dishes. Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. [1] The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a low-noise block ...

  6. PowerVu - Wikipedia

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    PowerVu is a conditional access system for digital television developed by Scientific Atlanta. [1] It is used for professional broadcasting, notably by Retevision, Bloomberg Television, Discovery Channel, AFRTS, ABS-CBN, GMA Network, and American Forces Network.

  7. 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 ...