Dish also sells digital TV receiver equipment, some with HD and DVR features, to its customers and third-party retailers.
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Alon Ironi runs Siano Mobile Silicon, an Israeli firm that makes the specialty TV receiver chips that receive signals encoded using the unique Chinese standards.
The U-verse Easy Remote App is the latest app to utilize the U-verse Enabled platform, which lets customers easily connect their iPhone or iPad to their U-verse TV receiver over their in-home Wi-Fi network.
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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.
The company went to great pain to design a system that would meet all the legal requirements of an existing over the air TV receiver, even going as far as creating limitations for customers in terms of geographical areas in which they can use the service.
Using Harman Kardon's minimalist, curvy new iPod dock, the Bridge, listeners can control their 3G and newer 'Pods from the HK remote and actually view menu items and track info on either their TV screen or the receiver's display.
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Those consumer who go to Best Buy and buy the cheapest TV, the cheapest AV receiver will flock to HD DVD.
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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More than half of survey respondents said they would most likely use a Wireless Receiver to move a TV to their porch or patio.
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The most prominent feature of this new model is its Sidekick-like form factor, although the U140 eschews the swivel screen for one that slides up to a 30-degree angle at the touch of a button -- all the better to watch programs from its integrated satellite DMB receiver (complete with TV-OUT).
The U-verse Wireless Receiver simply connects to the TV and plugs into a power outlet.
ENGADGET: AT&T U-verse set-tops go wireless, free you to herniate yourself moving your HDTV around
"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.
More than 80 percent of customers said an important reason for having a Wireless Receiver was so they could place a TV in a room where there's not an existing TV outlet, such as a kitchen or outdoors.
ENGADGET: AT&T U-verse set-tops go wireless, free you to herniate yourself moving your HDTV around
Then there is the antenna needed for Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi if it is built in, and one for the GPS receiver, and if you have mobile TV capabilities built in there will be another antenna to receive, say the MediaFLO TV signals on 700 MHz.
With the flexibility and ease to move your TV around your home, the U-verse Wireless Receiver eliminates the need for dedicated U-verse receivers in less-frequented rooms.
ENGADGET: AT&T U-verse set-tops go wireless, free you to herniate yourself moving your HDTV around
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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Just under 10 million homes now have a flatscreen TV capable of receiving HD broadcasts but most don't have the receiver or subscription needed to watch television in the new format.
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Because the XPS One, made by Asustek of Taiwan, has a built-in television receiver that makes it as easy to watch and record cable TV as to surf the Web and download videos from YouTube--finally delivering on the long-awaited prophecy of TV-PC-Internet convergence.
The Z-Base systems can be programmed to respond to most remote controls, so a TV remote...or cable box remote...or satellite receiver remote...can control volume, mute, power and input functions.
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There are "free to air" services, which, like basic TV channels, can be picked up by any device with the right chip or receiver--no service provider necessary.
The Wireless Receiver also has full Total Home DVR capabilities to manage and play back recordings and pause and rewind live TV from any TV in the home.
ENGADGET: AT&T U-verse set-tops go wireless, free you to herniate yourself moving your HDTV around
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