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Television in France, the Glossary

Television in France was introduced in 1931, when the first experimental broadcasts began.^[1]

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AB1

AB1 (formally AB Channel 1 until 1995) is a French television channel aimed at young adults.

Advanced Video Coding

Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.

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Altice Europe N.V. (commonly known as Altice) is a French multinational telecommunications and mass media company with official headquarters in the Netherlands, founded and headed by the French-Israeli billionaire businessman Patrick Drahi, and the second largest telecoms company in France, behind Orange.

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Altice Média

Altice Média is a French media company, division of CMA CGM.

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Analog television

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

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Arte

Arte (Association relative à la télévision européenne (Association relating to European television), sometimes stylised in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture.

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Astra 19.2°E

Astra 19.2°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 19.2°East orbital position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

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Attenuation distortion

Attenuation distortion is the distortion of an analog signal that occurs during transmission when the transmission medium does not have a flat frequency response across the bandwidth of the medium or the frequency spectrum of the signal.

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Audio codec

An audio codec, or audio decoder is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio.

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Éditions Philippe Amaury

Éditions Philippe Amaury (EPA), also known as Groupe EPA or the Groupe Amaury, is a French private media group founded by Philippe Amaury (1940–2006) whose widow, Marie-Odile Amaury, owns a majority of the company.

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Île-de-France

The Île-de-France is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023.

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BeIN Sports (French TV channel)

beIN Sports France is a French network of sports channels owned by Qatari Sports Investments (an affiliate of beIN Media Group) and operated by Mediapro.

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BFM TV

BFM TV (stylized as BFMTV) is a French news broadcast television and radio network, wholly owned by Altice Média.

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Bouygues

Bouygues S.A. is a French engineering group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Bouygues Telecom

Bouygues Telecom is a French mobile phone, Internet service provider and IPTV company, part of the Bouygues group.

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C8 (French TV channel)

C8 is a French free-to-air television channel owned by Groupe Canal+.

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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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Canal J

Canal J (stylised as canal J) is a French pay television channel dedicated to children's programming.

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Canal+ (French TV channel)

Canal+ (meaning "Channel Plus"), also spelt Canal Plus and sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal, is a French premium television channel owned by the Groupe Canal+.

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Canal+ (French TV provider)

Canal+, established as CanalSatellite in 1992 and later rebranding to CanalSat, is a French subscription TV provider associated with the channel of the same name.

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Canal+ Cinéma(s)

Canal+ Cinéma(s) (formally known as Canal+ Jaune and Canal+ Cinema) is a French pay-TV thematic channel that is devoted to movie programming.

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Canal+ Sport (French TV channel)

Canal+ Sport is a French TV channel devoted to sports programming and is part of the "Les Chaînes Canal+" themed channels of Canal+.

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Chérie 25

Chérie 25 is a French TV channel, controlled by the NRJ Group.

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CNews

CNews (stylised as CNEWS, formerly i>Télé) is a French free-to-air opinion channel launched on 4 November 1999 by Groupe Canal+.

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Color television

Color television (American English) or colour television (Commonwealth English) is a television transmission technology that includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.

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Cotentin Peninsula

The Cotentin Peninsula (Cotentîn), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France.

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Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Coulommiers is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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CStar

CStar is a French free-to-air television channel, owned by Groupe Canal+.

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Digital subscriber line

Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

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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 television transition

The digital television transition, also called the digital switchover (DSO), the analogue switch/sign-off (ASO), the digital migration, or the analogue shutdown, is the process in which older analogue television broadcasting technology is converted to and replaced by digital television.

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Discovery, Inc.

Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City.

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Dolby Digital Plus

Dolby Digital Plus, also known as Enhanced AC-3 (and commonly abbreviated as DDP, DD+, E-AC-3 or EC-3), is a digital audio compression scheme developed by Dolby Labs for the transport and storage of multi-channel digital audio.

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DVB-T

DVB-T, short for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in Singapore in February 1998.

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Eurosport

Eurosport is a French group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia.

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Eutelsat 5 West B

Eutelsat 5 West B is a geostationary communications satellite.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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France 2

France 2 is a French public national television channel.

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France 24

France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.

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France 3

France 3 is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info.

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France 4

France 4 is a French free-to-air television channel owned by France Télévisions, focused on children's programming.

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France 5

France 5 is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group.

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France Ô

France Ô was a French free-to-air television channel featuring programming from the French overseas departments and collectivities in Metropolitan France.

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France Info (TV channel)

France Info (stylized as franceinfo) is a French domestic rolling news channel which started broadcasting on 31 August 2016 at 6:00 p.m. on the Web.

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France Médias Monde

France Médias Monde (France Media World.) is a French state-owned holding company which supervises and co-ordinates the activities of the major public media organizations broadcasting or publishing internationally from France.

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France Télévisions

France Télévisions (stylized since 2018 as) is the French national public television broadcaster.

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Free (ISP)

Free S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad S.A. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France.

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Free-to-air

Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost, or one-off fee (e.g., pay-per-view).

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's sole digital terrestrial television platform.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.

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French Parliament

The French Parliament (Parlement français) is the bicameral legislature of the French Fifth Republic, consisting of the upper house, the Senate (Sénat), and the lower house, the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale).

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Groupe Canal+

Groupe Canal+, also known as Canal+ Group in English, is a French media and telecommunications conglomerate based in Paris, owned and controlled by Vivendi.

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Groupe M6

Metropole Télévision SA, commonly known as Groupe M6 (M6 Group), is a French media holding company.

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Gulli

Gulli (stylised as gulli) is a French free-to-air television channel focused on kids' programming for those aged 3 to 14.

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HD1

HD1 is a proposed high-redshift galaxy, which is considered (as of April 2022) to be one of the earliest and most distant known galaxies yet identified in the observable universe.

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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.

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Hypermarket

A hypermarket or superstore is a big-box store combining a supermarket and a department store.

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Institut national de l'audiovisuel

The italic (abbrev. INA), is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives.

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Internet Protocol television

Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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L'Équipe (TV channel)

L'Équipe, often called La Chaîne L'Équipe (L'Équipe Channel) to distinguish it from its newspaper namesake, is a French sports television channel.

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La Chaîne Info

La Chaîne Info (LCI; English: "The News Channel") is a French free-to-air news channel.

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La Chaîne parlementaire

La Chaîne parlementaire (French for The Parliamentary Channel) is a French television network created, along with its sister station Public Sénat, by law on 30 December 1999.

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La Première (French TV network)

La Première is a group of French radio and television stations operated by the state-owned France Télévisions group.

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Lagardère News

Lagardère News, formerly known as Lagardère Active, is the media activities arm of the French Lagardère Group.

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The italic (Professional Football League), commonly known as the LFP, is a French governing body that runs the major professional football leagues in France and Monaco.

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List of French television series

This is a list of television programs that have been produced by France.

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List of French-language television channels

The List of French-language television channels includes the following channels.

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List of television stations in France

This is a list of TV services available on digital terrestrial, satellite, internet streaming and cable systems in France.

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List of years in French television

This is a list of years in French television.

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M6 (TV channel)

M6, also known as italic, is the most profitable private national French television channel and the third most watched television network in the French-speaking world.

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Marquee (structure)

A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel, theatre, casino, train station, or similar building.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Modulation

In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a separate signal called the modulation signal that typically contains information to be transmitted.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats.

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Multiplex (television)

A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.

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NRJ 12

NRJ 12 is a French private commercial general-interest television channel belonging to the NRJ Group, created on 31 March 2005 on DTT.

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NRJ Group

The NRJ Group (NRJ is an acronym read as énergie in French, pronounced) is a French multimedia group based in Paris.

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Numericable

Numericable was a major French cable operator and telecommunications services company.

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Orange S.A.

Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom S.A., stylised as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications company.

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Overseas France

Overseas France (France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization.

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Paris Première

Paris Première is a French TV channel, available on cable, satellite and the digital terrestrial service, Télévision Numérique Terrestre.

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Pay television

The pay television (pay TV), also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.

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Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast.

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Planète+

Planète+ (formerly Planète Câble) is a French television network that primarily broadcasts documentaries.

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Radio France

Radio France is the French national public radio broadcaster.

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RMC Découverte

RMC Découverte is a French television channel broadcast on channel 24 and owned by Altice Média.

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RMC Story

RMC Story, formerly known as Numéro 23 and initially as TVous La télédiversité, is a French independent TV television channel founded by Diversité TV France.

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RTL Group

RTL Group S.A. ("Radio Télévision Luxembourg") is a Luxembourg-based international media conglomerate, with another corporate office in Cologne, Germany.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.

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SCART

SCART (also known as italic or italic, especially in France, 21-pin EuroSCART in marketing by Sharp in Asia, Euroconector in Spain, EuroAV or EXT, or EIA Multiport in the United States, as an EIA interface) is a French-originated standard and associated 21-pin connector for connecting audio-visual (AV) equipment.

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SES Astra

SES Astra SA was a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that maintained and operated the Astra series of geostationary communication satellites between 2001 and 2011.

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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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SFR

SFR (label) is a French telecommunications company.

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Télévision Par Satellite

Télévision Par Satellite (TPS) was a French company that offered subscription television packages via satellite.

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Television

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

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TF1

TF1 (standing for Télévision Française 1) is a French commercial television network owned by TF1 Group, controlled by the Bouygues conglomerate.

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TF1 Group

TF1 Group (Groupe TF1) is a French media holding company.

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TF1 Séries Films

TF1 Séries Films, formerly HD1 (acronym for Histoire de) is a French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group.

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TF6

TF6 was a French mini general-interest entertainment television channel aimed at young adult viewers.

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TFX (TV channel)

TFX (formerly NT1) is a French free television network owned by Groupe TF1.

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Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries.

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TMC (TV channel)

TMC (originally short for Télé Monte-Carlo) is a Franco–Monégasque general entertainment television channel, owned by the French media holding company Groupe TF1.

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TPS Star

TPS Star was a French general entertainment channel broadcasting movies, sports and sitcoms.

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Triple play (telecommunications)

In the field of telecommunications, the concept of triple play service refers to the provision of three essential services — high-speed broadband Internet access, television, and latency-sensitive telephone services — all delivered over a single broadband connection.

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References

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

Also known as Digital television in France, Digital terrestrial television in France, French TV, French television, Satellite television in France, Télévision Numérique Terrestre.

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