Q: Many television programs indicate they are “closed captioned” for the hearing impaired. What must one do to receive this service? A: You need a closed caption decoder, which looks like a cable box ...

Even before the great COFDM vs. 8-VSB modulation system debate momentarily clouded the television transition, integrated circuit developers and consumer electronics companies were hard at work on more ...

PITTSFIELD —First it was South County, then it was Northern Berkshire, and soon it will be Pittsfield's turn. On Tuesday, Charter Spectrum will establish an all-digital signal in Pittsfield, something ...

I was wondering if any one knew of a device a "decoder box" besides the HT receivers that did digital decoding. I have 4 really good 2CH amps and a DVD player with optical out and I want to go from ...

Today's highly integrated, single-chip interactive digital TV set-top box (STB) systems support a wide variety of applications, ranging from entry-level broadcast-only digital TV reception through a ...

Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics has released a low-cost set-top-box (STB) decoder chip aimed at standard-definition (SD) terrestrial, cable, satellite and Internet Protocol (IP) TV ...