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VBox Home TV Gateway, the Glossary

VBox Home TV gateway is a network-enabled live TV tuner and PVR HDTV set-top-box produced by VBox Communications Ltd.^[1]

50 relations: ATSC standards, Cable television, Common Interface, Computer, Computer network, Conditional-access module, DBox2, Digital video recorder, DLNA, Dreambox, DVB, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-T2, Extended file system, File Allocation Table, File system, Free-to-air, Frontend and backend, Hard disk drive, HDMI, ISDB, Kodi (software), Local area network, LocationFree Player, M3U, Monsoon Multimedia, Multiplex (television), MythTV, Network-attached storage, Pay television, Satellite television, Set-top box, Smart TV, Smartphone, Tablet computer, Terrestrial television, TiVo, Transponder (satellite communications), Tuner (radio), TV gateway, Tvheadend, Universal Plug and Play, USB flash drive, Video game console, VideoLAN, Web browser, XMLTV.
Digital video recorders
Set-top box
Television placeshifting technology

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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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and cable television are television technology.

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Common Interface

In Digital Video Broadcasting, the Common Interface (also called DVB-CI) is a technology which allows decryption of pay TV channels. VBox Home TV Gateway and Common Interface are set-top box.

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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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Computer network

A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway 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).

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and digital video recorder are digital video recorders and set-top box.

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DLNA

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a set of interoperability standards for sharing home digital media among multimedia devices.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and Dreambox are digital video recorders, set-top box and television technology.

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DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of international open standards for digital television. VBox Home TV Gateway and DVB are television technology.

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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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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.

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DVB-S2

Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite - Second Generation (DVB-S2) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB-S system.

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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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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.

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Extended file system

The extended file system, or ext, was implemented in April 1992 as the first file system created specifically for the Linux kernel.

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File Allocation Table

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems.

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File system

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.

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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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Frontend and backend

In software engineering, the terms frontend and backend (sometimes written as back end or back-end) refer to the separation of concerns between the presentation layer (frontend), and the data access layer (backend) of a piece of software, or the physical infrastructure or hardware.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and HDMI are television technology.

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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.

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Kodi (software)

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player and technology convergence software application developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.

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Local area network

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and LocationFree Player are television placeshifting technology and television technology.

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M3U

M3U (MP3 URL or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and Monsoon Multimedia are television placeshifting technology and television technology.

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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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MythTV

MythTV is a free and open-source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living room TV. VBox Home TV Gateway and MythTV are television placeshifting technology and television technology.

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Network-attached storage

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients.

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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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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and satellite television are television technology.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and set-top box are television technology.

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Smart TV

A smart TV, also known as a connected TV (CTV), is a traditional television set with integrated Internet and interactive Web 2.0 features that allow users to stream music and videos, browse the internet, and view photos. VBox Home TV Gateway and smart TV are television technology.

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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.

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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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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. VBox Home TV Gateway and terrestrial television are television technology.

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TiVo

TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999. VBox Home TV Gateway and TiVo are digital video recorders.

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Transponder (satellite communications)

A communications satellite's transponder is the series of interconnected units that form a communications channel between the receiving and the transmitting antennas.

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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. VBox Home TV Gateway 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. VBox Home TV Gateway and tV gateway are television technology.

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Tvheadend

TVHeadend, sometimes TVH for short, is a server application that reads video streams from LinuxTV sources and publishes them as internet streams.

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Universal Plug and Play

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols on the Internet Protocol (IP) that permits networked devices, such as personal computers, printers, Internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices, to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the network and establish functional network services.

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References

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

Also known as VBox.

VBox Home TV Gateway, the Glossary

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See also

Digital video recorders

Set-top box

Television placeshifting technology

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