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2. 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.

3. Coupon-eligible converter box - Wikipedia

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   A coupon-eligible converter box (CECB) was a digital television adapter that met eligibility specifications for subsidy "coupons" from the United States government.The subsidy program was enacted to provide terrestrial television viewers with an affordable way to continue receiving free digital terrestrial television services after the nation's television service transitioned to digital ...

4. ATSC tuner - Wikipedia

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   Canada had a similar analog TV termination date set to September 1, 2011 (except in some remote northern regions). [citation needed] It was feared that the US switch-off would cause millions of non-cable- and non-satellite-connected TV sets to "go dark". Viewers who did not upgrade, either to a television with a digital tuner or a set-top box ...

5. 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 ...

6. Intercarrier method - Wikipedia

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   In TV receivers, the received radio frequency signal is converted to IF in tuner and then demodulated. The output of the demodulator consists of a VF and an aural signal which is in fact an FM subcarrier modulated by AF. (The subcarrier is 5.5 MHz in system B and 4.5 MHz in system M ) The aural signal and the VF are separated by a simple filter.

7. 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 ...

8. Low-noise block downconverter - Wikipedia

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   The signal received by the LNB is extremely weak and it has to be amplified before downconversion. The low-noise amplifier section of the LNB amplifies this weak signal while adding the minimum possible amount of noise to the signal. The low-noise quality of an LNB is expressed as the noise figure (or sometimes noise temperature). This is the ...

9. Pirate decryption - Wikipedia

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   Adding an interfering signal at one specific frequency which could be simply filtered out at a suitably equipped receiver. Moving the audio portion of the signal to some other frequency or sending it in a non-standard format. These systems were designed to provide decoders to cable operators at low cost; a serious tradeoff was made in security.