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TV tuner card, the Glossary

A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer.^[1]

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Accelerated Graphics Port

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) is a parallel expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer system to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

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Analog television

Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio. TV tuner card and analog television are television technology.

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In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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ATI Technologies

ATI Technologies Inc., commonly called ATI, was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets.

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Broadcast television systems

Broadcast television systems (or terrestrial television systems outside the US and Canada) are the encoding or formatting systems for the transmission and reception of terrestrial television signals. TV tuner card and Broadcast television systems are television technology.

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Bus (computing)

In computer architecture, a bus (historically also called data highway or databus) is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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Comparison of DVR software packages

This is a comparison of digital video recorder (DVR), also known as personal video recorder (PVR), software packages. TV tuner card and comparison of DVR software packages are television technology.

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Composite video

Composite video is an baseband analog video format that typically carries a 415, 525 or 625 line interlaced black and white or color signal, on a single channel, unlike the higher-quality S-Video (two channels) and the even higher-quality component video (three or more channels). TV tuner card and Composite video are television technology.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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Device driver

In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.

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Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.

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Digital video recorder

A digital video recorder (DVR), also referred to as a personal video recorder (PVR) particularly in Canada and British English, is an 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. TV tuner card and digital video recorder are set-top box.

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DVB-H

DVB-H (digital video broadcasting - handheld) is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Expansion card

In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot (also referred to as a bus slot) on a computer's motherboard (see also backplane) to add functionality to a computer system.

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ExpressCard

ExpressCard, initially called NEWCARD, is an interface to connect peripheral devices to a computer, usually a laptop computer.

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Firmware

In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.

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Flash memory

Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.

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Frame grabber

A frame grabber is an electronic device that captures (i.e., "grabs") individual, digital still frames from an analog video signal or a digital video stream. TV tuner card and frame grabber are computing input devices.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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Graphics card

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

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Handset

A handset is a component of a telephone that a user holds to the ear and mouth to receive audio through the receiver and speak to the remote party using the built-in transmitter.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. TV tuner card and HDMI are television technology.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. TV tuner card and high-definition television are television technology.

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High-definition video

High-definition video (HD video) is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition.

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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Longplay (video games)

A longplay is a play-through of a video game, created with the intent of completing it as fully as possible, mainly for the purposes of nostalgia, preservation, and possibly as a walkthrough.

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Macintosh II

The Macintosh II is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from March 1987 to January 1990.

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MediaFLO was a technology developed by Qualcomm for transmitting audio, video and data to portable devices such as mobile phones and personal televisions, used for mobile television.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Mobile television

Mobile television is television watched on a small handheld or mobile device, typically developed for that purpose. TV tuner card and mobile television are television technology.

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Motherboard

A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, MB, base board, system board, or, in Apple computers, logic board) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems.

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Motion JPEG

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG or MJPEG) is a video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is compressed separately as a JPEG image.

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Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.

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Multi-core processor

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core or quad-core), each of which reads and executes program instructions.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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PacketVideo

PacketVideo Corporation or PV was a San Diego-based company that produced software for wireless multimedia, including the display of video on mobile handsets.

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PC Card

PC Card is a parallel peripheral interface for laptop computers and PDAs.

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PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.

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Peripheral Component Interconnect

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard.

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Qualcomm

Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Radio frequency

Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around.

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S-Video

S-Video (also known as separate video, Y/C, and erroneously Super-Video) is an analog video signal format that carries standard-definition video, typically at 525 lines or 625 lines.

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Serial digital interface

Serial digital interface (SDI) is a family of digital video interfaces first standardized by SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) in 1989. TV tuner card and Serial digital interface are television technology.

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SoftBank Group

is a Japanese multinational investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo which focuses on investment management.

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Softmodem

A software modem, commonly referred to as a softmodem, is a modem with minimal hardware that uses software running on the host computer, and the computer's resources (especially the central processing unit, random access memory, and sometimes audio processing), in place of the hardware in a conventional modem.

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Strategy guide

Strategy guides are instruction books that contain hints or complete solutions to specific video games.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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Television show

A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.

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Television station

A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.

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Tuner (radio)

A tuner is a subsystem that receives radio frequency (RF) transmissions, such as FM broadcasting, and converts the selected carrier frequency and its associated bandwidth into a fixed frequency that is suitable for further processing, usually because a lower frequency is used on the output. TV tuner card and tuner (radio) are set-top box.

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TV gateway

A TV gateway (also called network TV tuner) is a television headend to a network UPnP router that receives live digital video broadcast (DVB) MPEG transport streams (channels) from terrestrial aerials, satellite dishes, or cable feeds and converts them into IP streams for distribution over an IP network. TV tuner card and tV gateway are television technology.

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USB

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.

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Very high frequency

Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Video capture

Video capture is the process of converting an analog video signal—such as that produced by a video camera, DVD player, or television tuner—to digital video and sending it to local storage or to external circuitry.

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Video editing

Video editing is the post-production and arrangement of video shots.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_tuner_card

Also known as Combo tuner, Combo tuners, TV Card, TV Tuner Adapter, TV-tuner, Tuner card, Tv tuners, Video editing card, Video processing expansion card.

, Softmodem, Strategy guide, Television, Television show, Television station, Tuner (radio), TV gateway, USB, Very high frequency, VHS, Video, Video capture, Video editing, Video game, Video on demand, Wi-Fi, 1seg.

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