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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 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. Digital television transition in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Now that the switch from analog to digital broadcasts is complete, analog TVs are incapable of receiving over-the-air broadcasts without the addition of a set-top converter box. Consequently, a digital-to-analog converter, an electronic device that connects to an analog television, must be used in order to allow the television to receive ...

5. Digital television transition - Wikipedia

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   Consequently, a digital converter box – an electronic device that connects to an analog television – must be used to allow the television to receive digital broadcasts. In the United States, the government subsidized the purchase of such boxes for consumers via their coupon-eligible converter box program in 2009, funded by a small part of ...

6. Analog passthrough - Wikipedia

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   Any converter box converts the digital signal for the current digital sub-channel to an analog signal (at the reduced screen resolution of the analog standard), outputs that signal onto analog channel 3 or 4 (set by the user to avoid any conflict with local over-the-air channels) and sends that signal to the analog tuner on the TV. With a box ...

7. Cable converter box - Wikipedia

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   Pace Micro Technology DC757X HD cable box. A cable converter box or television converter box is an electronic tuning device that transposes/converts channels from a cable television service to an analog RF signal on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4, or to a different output for digital televisions such as HDMI.

8. Digital television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The five main ATSC formats of DTV currently [when?] broadcast in the U.S. are: . Standard definition—480i, to maintain compatibility with existing NTSC sets when a digital television broadcast is converted back to an analog one [citation needed] —either by a converter box or a cable/satellite operator's proprietary equipment

9. ATSC tuner - Wikipedia

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   Several TV stations are using or have used a temporary channel to send their DTV signals and, upon terminating analog transmission, move their digital transmission either back to their old analog channel, or to a third channel (sometimes the former analog of another local station), chosen in the digital channel election in the U.S. This ...