Digital television adapter
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A digital television adapter, commonly known as a converter box, DTV converter, or decoder box, is a television tuner that receives a digital television transmission, and converts the digital signal i
A digital TV converter box
Set-top box
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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
Digital television adapter
…signals received by a television antenna, or signals from a digital cable system. It normally does not refer to satellite TV, which has always required a set-top box either to operate the big satellite dish, or to be the integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) in the case of direct-broadcast satellites (DBS). In North…
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