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2. QAM (television) - Wikipedia

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   QAM (television) QAM is a digital television standard using quadrature amplitude modulation. It is the format by which digital cable channels are encoded and transmitted via cable television providers. QAM is used in a variety of communications systems such as Dial-up modems and WiFi. In cable systems, a QAM tuner is linked to the cable in a ...

3. Quadrature amplitude modulation - Wikipedia

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   Quadrature amplitude modulation ( QAM) is the name of a family of digital modulation methods and a related family of analog modulation methods widely used in modern telecommunications to transmit information. It conveys two analog message signals, or two digital bit streams, by changing ( modulating) the amplitudes of two carrier waves, using ...

4. ATSC tuner - Wikipedia

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   An ATSC ( Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner, often called an ATSC receiver or HDTV tuner, is a type of television tuner that allows reception of digital television (DTV) television channels that use ATSC standards, as transmitted by television stations in North America, parts of Central America, and South Korea.

5. 8VSB - Wikipedia

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   8VSB. 8VSB is the modulation method used for broadcast in the ATSC digital television standard. ATSC and 8VSB modulation is used primarily in North America; in contrast, the DVB-T standard uses COFDM . A modulation method specifies how the radio signal fluctuates to convey information. ATSC and DVB-T specify the modulation used for over-the-air ...

6. DVB-C - Wikipedia

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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. This system transmits an MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 family digital audio / digital video stream, using a QAM modulation with channel coding. The standard was first published by the ETSI in 1994, and ...

7. Cable-ready - Wikipedia

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   Digital cable-ready or DCR is a label used by manufacturers on new televisions which feature built-in technology that allows consumers to receive SDTV and HDTV digital cable programs. Usually this is a QAM tuner , since over-the-air broadcasts are either COFDM ( DVB-T and ISDB-T ) or 8VSB ( ATSC -T).