QAM (television), the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 13 relations: ATSC tuner, Cable radio, Cable television, Digital cable, Digital television, Digital video, DVB-C, ITU-T, North America, Public-access television, Quadrature amplitude modulation, Set-top box, Terrestrial television.

ATSC tuner

An ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner, often called an ATSC receiver or HDTV tuner, is a type of television tuner that allows reception of digital television (DTV) television channels that use ATSC standards, as transmitted by television stations in North America, parts of Central America, and South Korea. QAM (television) and ATSC tuner are digital television.

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Cable radio

Cable radio is radio broadcasting into homes and businesses via a cable.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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Digital cable

Digital cable is the distribution of cable television using digital data and video compression.

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Digital television

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals.

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Digital video

Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.

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DVB-C

Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable (DVB-C) is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable.

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ITU-T

The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Public-access television

Public-access television (sometimes called community-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.

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Quadrature amplitude modulation

Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is the name of a family of digital modulation methods and a related family of analog modulation methods widely used in modern telecommunications to transmit information.

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Set-top box

A set-top box (STB), 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 displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device.

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Terrestrial television

Terrestrial television or over-the-air television (OTA) is a type of television broadcasting in which the content is transmitted via radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth-based) transmitter of a TV station to a TV receiver having an antenna.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_(television)

Also known as Clear QAM, ClearQAM, QAM Tuner.