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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geneva—STMicroelectronics is shipping engineering samples of its latest OMEGA device, the QAMi5107, which is an SoC for digital cable TV set-top boxes that combines a digital signal demodulator with ...

DG Systems is integrating Vela's CineView Pro XLe MPEG-2 decoder in its DG Spot Box, a triple redundant distribution system for video that the company says enhances video delivery services for ...