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Unibox, the Glossary

Index Unibox

Unibox is a satellite, cable and terrestrial digital receiver (set-top box).[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 37 relations: Cable television, Cisco Videoscape, Commonwealth of Independent States, Conax, Conditional-access module, DBox2, Digital video recorder, Dreambox, Ethernet, Europe, Flash memory, Hauppauge MediaMVP, HDHomeRun, HDMI, High-definition video, Home theater PC, Instructions per second, IRC, Linux, LocationFree Player, Monsoon Multimedia, Moving Picture Experts Group, Moxi (DVR), MPEG transport stream, Nagravision, Pay television, Random-access memory, Satellite, Set-top box, Slingbox, Telly (home entertainment server), Terrestrial television, TV2Me, USB, Vacuum fluorescent display, Viaccess, Vu+.

  2. Digital video recorders
  3. Set-top box

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. Unibox and cable television are television technology.

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Cisco Videoscape

Cisco Videoscape (formerly NDS Group and currently known as Synamedia) was a majority owned subsidiary of News Corp, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012 before being sold back to the private equity company Permira in 2018 for US$1 billion.

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Commonwealth of Independent States

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.

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Conax

Conax develops television encryption, conditional access and content security for digital television.

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Conditional-access module

A conditional access module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which equips an integrated digital television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware facility to view conditional access content that has been encrypted using a conditional access system. Unibox and conditional-access module are set-top box.

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DBox2

The DBox is a DVB satellite and cable digital television integrated receiver decoder (set-top box). Unibox and DBox2 are Linux-based devices.

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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. Unibox and digital video recorder are digital video recorders and set-top box.

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Dreambox

Dreambox is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial and cable digital television receivers (set-top boxes), produced by German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia. Unibox and Dreambox are digital video recorders, Linux-based devices, satellite television, set-top box and television technology.

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Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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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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The Hauppauge MediaMVP is a network media player. Unibox and Hauppauge MediaMVP are digital video recorders and Linux-based devices.

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HDHomeRun

HDHomeRun is a network-attached digital television tuner box, produced by the company SiliconDust USA, Inc. Unibox and HDHomeRun are television technology.

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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. Unibox and HDMI 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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Home theater PC

A home theater PC (HTPC) or media center computer is a convergent device that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computer with a software application that focuses on video, photo, audio playback, and sometimes video recording functionality.

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Instructions per second

Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed.

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IRC

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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LocationFree Player

Sony's LocationFree is the marketing name for a group of products and technologies for timeshifting and placeshifting streaming video. Unibox and LocationFree Player are television technology.

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Monsoon Multimedia was a company that manufactured, developed and sold video streaming and place-shifting devices that allowed consumers to view and control live television on PCs connected to a local (home) network or remotely from a broadband-connected PC or mobile phone. Unibox and Monsoon Multimedia are television technology.

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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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Moxi (DVR)

Moxi was a line of high-definition digital video recorders produced by Moxi Digital Digeo and Arris International. Unibox and Moxi (DVR) are digital video recorders.

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MPEG transport stream

MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS, MTS) or simply transport stream (TS) is a standard digital container format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data.

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Nagravision

Nagravision (or Nagra Kudelski or simply Nagra) is a company of the Kudelski Group that develops conditional access systems for digital cable and satellite television.

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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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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Satellite

A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.

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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. Unibox and set-top box are television technology.

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Slingbox

The Slingbox was a TV streaming media device made by Sling Media that encoded local video for transmission over the Internet to a remote device (sometimes called placeshifting). Unibox and Slingbox are set-top box and television technology.

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Telly (home entertainment server)

The Telly home entertainment server is range of computer systems designed to store, manage, and access all forms of digital media in the home. Unibox and Telly (home entertainment server) are digital video recorders.

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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. Unibox and terrestrial television are television technology.

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TV2Me

TV2Me is a device that allows TV viewers to watch their home's cable or satellite television programs on their own computers, mobile phones, television sets and projector screens anywhere in the world. Unibox and TV2Me 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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Vacuum fluorescent display

A vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) is a display device once commonly used on consumer electronics equipment such as video cassette recorders, car radios, and microwave ovens.

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Viaccess

Viaccess is a conditional access system edit by Orange S.A. There are six versions in use today, Viaccess PC2.3, Viaccess PC2.4, Viaccess PC2.5, Viaccess PC2.6, Viaccess ACS3.x/Prime Sentinel, Viaccess ACS4.1, Viaccess ACS5.0, and Viaccess ACS6.x/Adaptive Sentinel.

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Vu+

The Vu+ (pronounced VuPlus), is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by Korean multimedia brand Ceru Co., Ltd. Unibox and Vu+ are digital video recorders, Linux-based devices, satellite television, set-top box and television technology.

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See also

Digital video recorders

Set-top box

References

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