Tuner (radio), the Glossary
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.[1]
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93 relations: Amplifier, Amplitude modulation, Analog passthrough, Analog signal, Analog television, Analog-to-digital converter, Antenna (radio), ATSC standards, ATSC tuner, Audio frequency, Audiophile, Band-pass filter, Bandspread, Bandwidth (signal processing), Cable converter box, Capacitor, Carrier wave, Component video, Composite video, Crystal radio, Demodulation, Detector (radio), Digital Audio Broadcasting, Digital broadcasting, Digital multimedia broadcasting, Digital signal processor, Digital television, Digital television adapter, Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast, Digital video recorder, Digital-to-analog converter, Display device, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-T2, Electrical resonance, Europe, Expansion card, FM broadcasting, Frequency modulation, Graphics card, Hearing range, High fidelity, Home computer, Image, Inductor, Intermediate frequency, ISDB, Local oscillator, ... Expand index (43 more) »
- Receiver (radio)
- Set-top box
- Wireless tuning and filtering
Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
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Amplitude modulation
Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting messages with a radio wave.
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Analog passthrough
Analog passthrough is a feature found on some digital-to-analog television converter boxes.
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Analog signal
An analog signal is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity.
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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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Analog-to-digital converter
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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Antenna (radio)
In radio engineering, an antenna (American English) or aerial (British English) is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. Tuner (radio) and antenna (radio) are radio electronics.
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ATSC standards
Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an International set of standards for broadcast and digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks.
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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. Tuner (radio) and ATSC tuner are set-top box.
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Audio frequency
An audio frequency or audible frequency (AF) is a periodic vibration whose frequency is audible to the average human.
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Audiophile
An audiophile (from +) is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.
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Band-pass filter
A band-pass filter or bandpass filter (BPF) is a device that passes frequencies within a certain range and rejects (attenuates) frequencies outside that range.
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Bandspread
In a radio receiver, a bandspread control is a secondary tuning control that allows accurate tuning of closely spaced frequencies of a radio band.
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Bandwidth (signal processing)
Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.
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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 or 4, or to a different output for digital televisions such as HDMI. Tuner (radio) and cable converter box are set-top box.
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Capacitor
In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other.
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Carrier wave
In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a periodic waveform (usually sinusoidal) that carries no information that has one or more of its properties modified (the called modulation) by an information-bearing signal (called the message signal or modulation signal) for the purpose of conveying information.
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Component video
Component video is an analog video signal that has been split into two or more component channels.
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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).
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Crystal radio
A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set, is a simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. Tuner (radio) and crystal radio are radio electronics and receiver (radio).
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Demodulation
Demodulation is extracting the original information-bearing signal from a carrier wave. Tuner (radio) and Demodulation are radio electronics and receiver (radio).
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Detector (radio)
In radio, a detector is a device or circuit that extracts information from a modulated radio frequency current or voltage. Tuner (radio) and detector (radio) are radio electronics.
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Digital Audio Broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services in many countries around the world, defined, supported, marketed and promoted by the WorldDAB organisation.
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Digital broadcasting
Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital signals rather than analogue signals for broadcasting over radio frequency bands (radio broadcasting).
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Digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) is a digital radio transmission technology developed in South Korea as part of the national IT project for sending multimedia such as TV, radio and datacasting to mobile devices such as mobile phones, laptops and GPS navigation systems.
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Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.
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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 adapter
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. Tuner (radio) and digital television adapter are Consumer electronics and set-top box.
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DTMB (Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast) is the digital TV standard for mobile and fixed devices, developed in the People's Republic of China.
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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. Tuner (radio) and digital video recorder are set-top box.
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Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.
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Display device
A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people).
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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.
DVB-S
Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) is the original DVB standard for satellite television and dates from 1995, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997.
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.
DVB-T2
DVB-T2 is an abbreviation for "Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial"; it is the extension of the television standard DVB-T, issued by the consortium DVB, devised for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television.
Electrical resonance
Electrical resonance occurs in an electric circuit at a particular resonant frequency when the impedances or admittances of circuit elements cancel each other.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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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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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Frequency modulation
Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
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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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Hearing range
Hearing range describes the frequency range that can be heard by humans or other animals, though it can also refer to the range of levels.
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High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound. Tuner (radio) and high fidelity are Consumer electronics.
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Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.
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Image
An image is a visual representation.
Inductor
An inductor, also called a coil, choke, or reactor, is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it.
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In communications and electronic engineering, an intermediate frequency (IF) is a frequency to which a carrier wave is shifted as an intermediate step in transmission or reception. Tuner (radio) and intermediate frequency are radio electronics.
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ISDB
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB; Japanese:, Tōgō dejitaru hōsō sābisu) is a Japanese broadcasting standard for digital television (DTV) and digital radio.
Local oscillator
In electronics, a local oscillator (LO) is an electronic oscillator used with a mixer to change the frequency of a signal. Tuner (radio) and local oscillator are radio electronics.
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Longwave
In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band.
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McIntosh Laboratory
McIntosh Laboratory is an American manufacturer of handcrafted high-end audio equipment headquartered in Binghamton, New York.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.
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Mini PC
A mini PC (or miniature PC, nettop, or Smart Micro PC) is a small-sized, inexpensive, low-power, legacy-free desktop computer designed for basic tasks such as web browsing, accessing web-based applications, document processing, and audio/video playback.
Minimum detectable signal
A minimum detectable signal is a signal at the input of a system whose power allows it to be detected over the background electronic noise of the detector system.
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NTSC
NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.
Nyquist rate
In signal processing, the Nyquist rate, named after Harry Nyquist, is a value equal to twice the highest frequency (bandwidth) of a given function or signal.
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PAL
Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analog television.
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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Personal computer
A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.
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Phase-locked loop
A phase-locked loop or phase lock loop (PLL) is a control system that generates an output signal whose phase is fixed relative to the phase of an input signal. Tuner (radio) and phase-locked loop are radio electronics.
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Potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
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QAM (television)
QAM is a digital television standard using quadrature amplitude modulation.
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Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
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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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Radio receiver
In radio communications, a radio receiver, also known as a receiver, a wireless, or simply a radio, is an electronic device that receives radio waves and converts the information carried by them to a usable form. Tuner (radio) and radio receiver are receiver (radio).
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RF modulator
An RF modulator (radio frequency modulator) is an electronic device used to convert signals from devices such as media players, VCRs and game consoles to a format that can be handled by a device designed to receive a modulated RF input, such as a radio or television receiver. Tuner (radio) and rF modulator are Consumer electronics.
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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.
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.
SECAM
SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire, French for color sequential with memory), is an analog color television system that was used in France, Russia and some other countries or territories of Europe and Africa.
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. Tuner (radio) and set-top box are Consumer electronics.
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Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. Tuner (radio) and smartphone are Consumer electronics.
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
Stereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.
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Subcarrier
A subcarrier is a sideband of a radio frequency carrier wave, which is modulated to send additional information.
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Superheterodyne receiver
A superheterodyne receiver, often shortened to superhet, is a type of radio receiver that uses frequency mixing to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency (IF) which can be more conveniently processed than the original carrier frequency. Tuner (radio) and superheterodyne receiver are radio electronics and receiver (radio).
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Tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Tuner (radio) and Television are Consumer electronics.
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Television antenna
A television antenna, also called a television aerial (in British English), is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive terrestrial over-the-air (OTA) broadcast television signals from a television station. Tuner (radio) and television antenna are radio electronics.
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Television channel frequencies
The following tables show the frequencies assigned to analogue broadcast television channels in various regions of the world, along with the ITU letter designator for the system used.
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Television set
A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or as a computer monitor.
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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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TV and FM DX
TV DX and FM DX is the active search for distant radio or television stations received during unusual atmospheric conditions.
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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. Tuner (radio) and tV gateway are Consumer electronics.
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TV tuner card
A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Tuner (radio) and tV tuner card are set-top box.
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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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.
USB hardware
The initial versions of the USB standard specified connectors that were easy to use and that would have acceptable life spans; revisions of the standard added smaller connectors useful for compact portable devices.
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Varicap
In electronics, a varicap diode, varactor diode, variable capacitance diode, variable reactance diode or tuning diode is a type of diode designed to exploit the voltage-dependent capacitance of a reverse-biased p–n junction.
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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VGA connector
The Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector is a standard connector used for computer video output.
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Video
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.
Videocassette recorder
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding. Tuner (radio) and videocassette recorder are Consumer electronics.
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See also
Receiver (radio)
- Communications receiver
- Crystal radio
- Demodulation
- Direct-conversion receiver
- Junghans Mega
- List of communications receivers
- Low IF receiver
- Measuring receiver
- Neutrodyne
- Noise blanker
- Plath GmbH
- Preselector
- Radar warning receiver
- Radio receiver
- Radio receiver design
- Radio scanner
- Radio spectrum scope
- Reflex receiver
- Regenerative circuit
- Roofing filter
- S meter
- Shortwave radio receiver
- Software-defined radio
- Superheterodyne receiver
- Table radio
- Transistor radio
- Tuned radio frequency receiver
- Tuner (radio)
Set-top box
- ATSC tuner
- AV receiver
- Acorn Online Media Set Top Box
- AllVid
- Apple Interactive Television Box
- Cable converter box
- CableCARD
- Common Interface
- Conditional-access module
- Coupon-eligible converter box
- DOCSIS Set-top Gateway
- DTV receiver
- Digital television adapter
- Digital video recorder
- Dreambox
- Enigma (DVB)
- Eurovox
- FTA receiver
- Freebox
- Hard disk recorder
- Hopper (DVR)
- Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV
- Infomir
- Integrated digital television
- Integrated receiver/decoder
- Java TV
- LinuxTV
- MSN TV
- Microsoft Venus
- Motorola DCT2000
- Nano-ITX
- Nexus Player
- Nvidia Shield TV
- Over-the-top media service
- Over-the-top media services in India
- PlayTV
- Set-back box
- Set-top box
- Slingbox
- TV tuner card
- Three-way hybrid
- Tuner (radio)
- Unibox
- V+
- VBox Home TV Gateway
- Vu+
- Whole-home DVR
Wireless tuning and filtering
- Antenna tuner
- Automatic frequency control
- Choke (electronics)
- Crystal filter
- Dielectric resonator
- Ferrite bead
- Line filter
- Loop antenna
- MPX filter
- Preselector
- RF and microwave filter
- Radio spectrum
- Roofing filter
- Tuned radio frequency receiver
- Tuner (radio)
- Variable capacitor
- Variable-frequency oscillator
- Wobbulator
- YIG sphere
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuner_(radio)
Also known as AM Tuner, AM/FM tuner, FM Tuner, Preset button (tuner), Radio tuner, Radio tuning, Receiver (Television), TV Tuner, Television tuner, Tune in, Tuner (electronics), Tuner (television).
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