Dish also sells digital TV receiver equipment, some with HD and DVR features, to its customers and third-party retailers.
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Apple introduced the Apple TV, a digital media receiver, originally in March 2007 and has updated it twice in September 2010 and March 2012.
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DVB-H, which has been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as the standard for mobile TV services in Europe, works by beaming a signal to a digital TV receiver, attached to phones.
All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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The Zune also has a radio receiver for both analogue and digital radio.
The ZPen receiver is larger than that of the Mobile Digital Scribe and has only a few status LEDs instead of the LCD.
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It also functions as an attractive digital photo frame when not being used as a Mobile DTV receiver.
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First, that its ViP622 DVR receiver will now be available for free as a part of the Digital Home Advantage Program.
Also, new passing icons indicate when receivers are looking for the ball and ready to make a play, so digital QBs will need to be aware and only make the pass when the receiver is ready.
Once this signal is accepted in the receiver, it can then be decoded into its native format including Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio.
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When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user's computer via USB to transfer the digital files.
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As is to be expected, ordinary digital transmission is nowhere near robust enough to cope with the problems experienced by a mobile receiver, which can suffer from all sorts of doppler-shift effects and multipath radio interference as it moves around the place.
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"Digital TV uses the same picture quality as a current TV set - it's just the receiver that will be different, " said Which? in its April report.
Sure, we've got satellite radio in the U.S. But the Brits have DAB digital audio broadcasts that are free over the air as long as you've got a DAB receiver (America's answer to DAB, HD radio, has a long way to go before it even comes close to DAB in terms of reach).
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