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 ...

While many of us have banished land line telephones from our houses, there are still quite a few people who utilize POTS lines today. These analog phone systems use Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) ...

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 ...

Conexant Systems announced that its CX2417x family of HDTV set-top box (STB) broadcast decoders has been certified to support Dolby Digital Plus audio coding technology. This advanced technology ...

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 ...

Another victim of Canal+’s takeover of MultiChoice appears to be the shelving of what MultiChoice planned to be its ...

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 ...