Cable television is a system for delivering broadcast programming to viewers by radio frequency signals transmitted through coaxial cable and through fibre-optic cable. Cable television is contrasted
A sign warning about a buried CATV cable in the area
A coaxial cable used to carry cable television to the subscribers' premises
A set-top box is an electronic device that receives the cable signal into the television set. Presented unit is a Cisco RNG200N for QAM digital cable television system used in North America.
A cable television distribution box (left) in the basement of a building in Germany (Kabel BW network, now Vodafone), with a splitter (right) which supplies the signal to separate cables which go to different rooms
A set-top box, also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and d
Cable television
…switched to or are in the course of switching to digital cable television since it was first introduced in the late 1990s. Most cable companies require a set-top box (cable converter box) or a slot on one's TV set for conditional access module cards to view their cable channels, even on newer televisions with digital…
A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC
A consumer Palcom DSL-350 satellite-receiver; the IF demodulation tuner is on the bottom left, and a Fujitsu MPEG decoder CPU is in the center of the board. The power supply is on the right.
A Sky Q digital satellite receiver set-top box
An older digital cable TV set-top box