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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. Some also have an HDMI output since ...

  3. Set-top box - Wikipedia

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    An Inview Neelix set-top box manufactured in 2012. It allows simultaneous access to television broadcast and internet applications. A Sky Q set-top box in the UK. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box or receiver and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV-tuner input and displays output to a television set and an ...

  4. Coupon-eligible converter box - Wikipedia

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    Defunct. 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 ...

  5. Fiber media converter - Wikipedia

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    Fiber media converter. A fiber media converter is a simple networking device that makes it possible to connect two dissimilar media types such as twisted pair with fiber optic cabling. They were introduced to the industry in the 1990s, and are important in interconnecting fiber optic cabling-based systems with existing copper-based structured ...

  6. Analog-to-digital converter - Wikipedia

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    4-channel stereo multiplexed analog-to-digital converter WM8775SEDS made by Wolfson Microelectronics placed on an X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card AD570 8-bit successive-approximation analog-to-digital converter AD570/AD571 silicon die INTERSIL ICL7107. 3.5 digit (i.e. conversion from analog to a numeric range of 0 to 1999 vs. 3 digit range of 0 to 999, typically used in meters, counters, etc ...

  7. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    The argument is that search engines and social media platforms use algorithms to selectively guess what information a user would like to see, based on information about the user (such as location, past click behaviour and search history). As a result, websites tend to show only information that agrees with the user's past viewpoint.

  8. Cable converter box - Wikipedia

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    Cable converter 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. The device allows a television set that is ...

  9. Digital media - Wikipedia

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    In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media ...