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  2. 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 ...

  3. DTV receiver - Wikipedia

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    It is usually connected to the TV set or incorporated in the TV set. The main features of a DTV receiver may be classified as follows: decodes the incoming digital signal; verifies access rights and security levels; displays cinema quality pictures on the TV set; outputs digital surround sound; processes and renders Internet and interactive TV ...

  4. Audio and video interfaces and connectors - Wikipedia

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    DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard (approved May 2006, current version 1.4 published on March 1, 2016). It defines a new license-free, royalty-free, digital audio/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor, or a computer and a home-theater system.

  5. Cable television - Wikipedia

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    Most cable companies require a set-top box (cable converter box) or a slot on one's TV set for conditional access module cards [2] to view their cable channels, even on newer televisions with digital cable QAM tuners, because most digital cable channels are now encrypted, or scrambled, to reduce cable service theft. A cable from the jack in the ...

  6. List of video connectors - Wikipedia

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    Generally use coaxial cable types such as RG-6 and RG-59 (except for twin-lead). Belling-Lee/IEC 169-2 connector TV aerial plug (a.k.a. antenna plug) Television antenna connection for most video devices outside North America. Used by early home computers and game consoles to connect them to TVs because of the lack of any other connector.

  7. Integrated receiver/decoder - Wikipedia

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    Commonly found in radio, television, Cable and satellite broadcasting facilities, the IRD is generally used for the reception of contribution feeds that are intended for re-broadcasting. The IRD is the interface between a receiving satellite dish or Telco networks and a broadcasting facility video/audio infrastructure.

  8. Digital television adapter - Wikipedia

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    A digital TV converter box. A digital television adapter (DTA), commonly known as a converter box, DTV converter , 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.

  9. File:TV-block-diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on anp.wikipedia.org टेलिविज़न; Usage on da.wikipedia.org Analog tv; Usage on de.wikipedia.org