Cable television Cable television Cable telephony is a specialized form of digital telephony over cable TV networks accomplished by installing a special telephone interface at the customer's premises that converts the analog signals from the customer's in-home wiring into a digital signal, which is then sent over the cable connection to the company's switching center, where it is connected to the PSTN. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable telephony"
Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via radio waves) in which a television antenna is required. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable television"
Cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. The headend facility is normally unmanned and surrounded by some type of security fencing and is typically a building or large shed housing electronic equipment used to receive and re-transmit video over the local cable infrastructure. One can also find headends in power line communication (PLC) substations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable television headend"
CableCARD is the trademarked term for the Point of Deployment (POD) module defined by standards including SCTE 28, SCTE 41, CEA-679 and others. The CableCard is inserted into a host (typically a television set) in order to implement proprietary decoding. The cable tuner and QPSK demodulator themselves are part of the host device, as is the MPEG decoder. The role of the card is to control the tuner, filter and process its output, and perform any conditional access and decryption functions. This results in an MPEG stream decoded by the host. ...more on Wikipedia about "CableCARD"
Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. Digital cable also enables two-way communication, enabling services such as the ability to purchase pay-per-view programming without the use of a phone line. Recently, some companies have also added video on demand services. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital cable"
JTV is a cable television station serving the Jackson County, Michigan metropolitan area, which has a population of approximately 162,000. Since the area is not well served by broadcast television, it is considered a primary media outlet. JTV is carried as Comcast cable channel 17 and Millennium Cable channel 21. The station broadcasts 24 hours daily and focuses on financially unethical practices, in addition to "quality" local programming. JTV also claims the title as the world leader in high shool sports television. ...more on Wikipedia about "JTV"
Night Flight was a television program on the USA Network from 1981-1988 which ran for four hours on Friday and Saturday nights then repeated into the wee hours of the morning. USA's Up All Night starring Rhonda Shear (and, later, Gilbert Gottfried ) replaced it in 1988. It was later revived through syndication in 1990, with one season of new episodes, then the format was changed to "best of" shows from the USA years with host Tom Juarez. These shows were seen as late as 1996 on local TV stations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Night Flight (TV series)"
The term set-top box describes a device that connects to a television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content then displayed on the screen. The signal source might be an ethernet cable, (see triple play), a satellite dish, a coaxial cable (see cable television), a telephone line (including DSL connections), or even an ordinary VHF or UHF antenna. Content, in this context, could mean any or all of video, audio, Internet webpages, interactive games, or other possibilities. A set-top box does not necessarily contain a tuner of its own. A box connected to a television (or VCR) set's SCART connector is fed with the baseband television signal from the set's tuner, and can ask the television to display the returned processed signal instead. This feature is used for decoding analog Pay TV in Europe, and in the past was used for decoding teletext, before decoders became built-in. The outgoing signal can be of the same nature as the incoming signal, or RGB component video, or even an "insert" over the original signal, thanks to the "fast switching" feature of SCART. In case of Pay TV, this solution avoids the hassles associated with having a second remote control. ...more on Wikipedia about "Set-top box"
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