Cable television
System of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.
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Verizon Fios
Verizon Fios, also marketed as Fios by Verizon, is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television utility that operates over a fiber optical network.
Internet Protocol television
Delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats.
Analog television
Original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.
Analog television may be wireless (terrestrial television and satellite television) or can be distributed over a cable network as cable television.
High-definition television
High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system providing a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.
It is the current de facto standard video format used in most broadcasts: terrestrial broadcast television, cable television, satellite television and Blu-ray Discs.
Satellite dish
Dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite.
Lower frequencies are allocated to cable and terrestrial TV, FM radio, etc.
Set-top box
Information appliance device that generally contains a TV-tuner input and displays output to a television set and an external source of signal, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device.
They are used in cable television, satellite television, and over-the-air television systems as well as other uses.
Television
Telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images and sound.
Alternatively television signals are distributed by coaxial cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and, since the 2000s via the Internet.
Public-access television
Public-access television is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television specialty channels.
Digital video recorder
Electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.
As consumers have been able to converge increasing amounts of video content on their set-tops, delivered by traditional 'broadcast' cable, satellite and terrestrial as well as IP networks, the ability to capture programming and view it whenever they want has become a must-have function for many consumers.
DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) is an international telecommunications standard that permits the addition of high-bandwidth data transfer to an existing cable television (CATV) system.