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The company was founded by future Pennsylvania governor Milton Jerrold Shapp (the company name was derived from his middle name) in 1950. [1] The company was one of the earliest pioneers of community antenna television systems (cable television).
It had three coaxial cable/antenna posts for separate RF inputs and one output. Audio : Since the console Dimensia monitor was intended to stand alone (the full system had a 100 or 200 watt amplifier and 3-way tower speakers), but was still a high-end system, it featured a more complete built-in audio system than most monitors of the time.
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 ...
In 1980, the most popular remote control was the Starcom Cable TV Converter (from Jerrold Electronics, a division of General Instrument) [15] which used 40-kHz sound to change channels. Then, a Canadian company, Viewstar, Inc., was formed by engineer Paul Hrivnak and started producing a cable TV converter with an infrared remote control.
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 ...
DCO-RLS (Remote Line Switch, controlled by hosts above) RLS 1000 (Pedestal mount cabinet 1000 lines in a subdivision - required multiple T-1's to host) RLS 4000 (Same thing, but 4000 lines) RLS (This has the ability in a host outage to make intra-cabinet calls) The line switches will also talk to AT&T SLC-96 pedestals – 96 lines on a ped
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Remote electrical tilt is abbreviated as RET and it is part of the Antenna Interface Standards Group's open specification for the control interface of antenna devices. [2] Occasionally, mechanical and electrical tilt will be used together in order to create greater beam tilt in one direction than the other, mainly to accommodate unusual terrain.