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2. Entertainment center - Wikipedia

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   Antique or modern reproduction armoires or standing cabinets are used for entertainment centers, as are shelves and shelving systems. Part of the purpose of an entertainment center is to neatly house the many wires and cables that are associated with audio and video components, and they often contain dedicated areas (either drawers or other ...

3. Predicta - Wikipedia

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   Philco Predicta from the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Predicta model 4654 with “barber pole” stand from the collection of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York The Philco Predicta is a black and white television chassis style, which was made in several cabinet models with 17” or 21” screens by the American ...

4. Mechanical television - Wikipedia

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   Mechanical TV usually only produced small images. It was the main type of TV until the 1930s. Vacuum tube television, first demonstrated in September 1927 in San Francisco by Philo Farnsworth , and then publicly by Farnsworth at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1934, was rapidly overtaking mechanical television.

5. Nipkow disk - Wikipedia

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   A Nipkow disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating image scanning device, patented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in Berlin. [1] This scanning disk was a fundamental component in mechanical television, and thus the first televisions, through the 1920s ...

6. Technology of television - Wikipedia

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   The elements of a simple broadcast television system are: . An image source. This is the electrical signal that represents a visual image, and may be derived from a professional video camera in the case of live television, a video tape recorder for playback of recorded images, or telecine with a flying spot scanner for the transfer of motion pictures to video).

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 ...