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2. Channel Master - Wikipedia

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   In the 1980s, Channel Master was the only second source for General Instrument (GI)'s Videocipher II module, a building block for satellite television receivers, under a licensing agreement for which Avnet paid GI a million dollars. The Channel Master 4251, a high-performance parabolic UHF television antenna, stood about seven feet in diameter ...

3. Joseph Y. Resnick - Wikipedia

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   Joseph Yale Resnick (July 13, 1924 – October 6, 1969) was an American inventor, World War II veteran and Democratic Congressman, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (28th congressional district). He served two terms from 1965 to 1969.

4. Wometco Home Theater - Wikipedia

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   Wometco Home Theater (WHT) was an early pay television service in the New York City area that was owned by Miami-based Wometco Enterprises, which owned several major network affiliates in mid-sized media markets and its flagship WTVJ in Miami (then a CBS affiliate on channel 4, now an NBC owned-and-operated station on channel 6).

5. SMATV - Wikipedia

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   The system consists of a master antenna and a matching transformer to match the balanced antenna with unbalanced cable and amplifiers. [5] Most antennas have an impedance of around 300 Ω. To convert it to 75 Ω, a matching transformer (or balun) is used. For trunk line isolation, a resistive inductive device known as a splitter is used.

6. Cable television headend - Wikipedia

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   Most digital video signals are compressed to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats in order to combine multiple video streams into a QAM making the most efficient use of spectrum which a customer cable set top box receives, demodulates, de-encrypts and displays as a virtual channel number that the viewer recognizes. In many cases the same TV network may ...

7. 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.