Television technology

Slow-scan television (SSTV) is a picture transmission method used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color.

Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) is an industry standard for a mobile audio/video interface that allows one to connect mobile phones, tablets, and other portable consumer electronics (CE) devices to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and audio receivers.

The videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.

Safe area is a term used in television production to describe the areas of the television picture that can be seen on television screens.

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transferring uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.

Analog television or analogue television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.

Apple TV (stylized as tv) is a digital media player and a microconsole developed and sold by Apple Inc.

Digital media players (DMP) are home entertainment consumer electronics devices first introduced in 2000 that can connect to a home network to stream digital media (such as digital music, digital photos, or digital video).

In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally.

MediaPortal is an open-source media center (HTPC) software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center.

Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is a television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.

LinuxMCE (Linux Media Center Edition) is a free and open source software platform with a 10-foot user interface designed to allow a computer to act as a home theater PC (HTPC) for the living-room TV, personal video recorder, and home automation system.

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i).

Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more component channels.

Video4Linux, V4L for short, is a collection of device drivers and an API for supporting realtime video capture on Linux systems.

Kinescope /ˈkɪnᵻskoʊp/, shortened to kine /ˈkɪniː/, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor.

MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater personal computer.

OpenELEC (short for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs and based on the Kodi (formerly XBMC) media player.

A television set, more commonly called a television, TV, TV set, television receiver, or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers for the purpose of viewing television.

SECAM, also written SÉCAM (French pronunciation: ​[sekam], Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for "Sequential Color with Memory"), is an analog color television system first used in France.

Windows Media Center (WMC) is a digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft.

The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube that contains one or more electron guns and a phosphorescent screen, and is used to display images.

Color television is a television transmission technology that includes information on the color of the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.

Electronic program guides (EPGs) and interactive program guides (IPGs) are menu-based systems that provide users of television, radio and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming.

Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface developed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).

A smart TV, sometimes referred to as connected TV or hybrid TV, is a television set or set-top box with integrated Internet and interactive "Web 2.

Rear-projection television (RPTV) is a type of large-screen television display technology.

BBC Research & Development is the national technical research department of the BBC.

In the context of broadcasting, backhaul refers to uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television station or radio station, broadcast network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished TV show or radio show.

Dimensia was RCA's brand name for their high-end models of television systems and their components (Tuner, VCR, CD Player, etc.) produced from 1984 to 1989, with variations continuing into the early 1990s, superseded by the ProScan model line.

Real Time Race Limited is a company based at Daresbury Laboratory in North West England.

Inview Technology (Inview Technology Ltd or simply Inview) is a UK based digital TV software company.

ADB is a company which provides and integrates software, system and service solutions to service providers and Pay-TV operator delivering connected services for connected lives.

A Video Router also known as a Video Matrix Switch is an electronic switch designed to route video signals from multiple input sources such as cameras, VT/DDR, computers and DVD players, to one or more display devices, such as monitors, projectors, and TVs.

myTV is an Arab American provider of Arabic live channels and video on demand in North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, using over-the-top technology.

EvoTV is a range of digital media players developed by Amkette that brings internet and web2.

Broadcast-safe video (broadcast legal or legal signal) is a term used in the broadcast industry to define video and audio compliant with the technical or regulatory broadcast requirements of the target area or region the feed might be broadcasting to.

SnapStream is a privately held software company based in Houston, Texas, USA that focuses on building TV monitoring software for organizations in broadcast, government and education.

SnapStream is a cross between a DVR and a search engine that enables organizations to monitor television based on the closed captioning mandated by the U.

Snell Limited, branded as Snell Advanced Media or SAM, is a company that designs and develops solutions for the media production market including applications for central operations, live production, post production, playout and media management.

FreeJ is a modular video mixer for GNU/Linux systems, dubbed a "vision mixer" by the authors of the software.

Enyo is an open source JavaScript framework for cross-platform mobile, desktop, TV and web applications emphasizing object-oriented encapsulation and modularity.

Even Higher is a book describing the future of TV broadcasting, as predicted by various industry figures.

ExtraVision was a short-lived teletext service created and operated by the American television network CBS in the early to mid-1980s.

Samba TV (formerly Flingo) is a content recommendation engine within Smart TV apps, co-founded in 2008 by early employees of BitTorrent (company), including Samba’s current CEO, Ashwin Navin.

GB-PVR was a PVR (personal video recorder) application, running on Microsoft Windows, whose main function was scheduling TV recordings and playing back live TV.

Keneth Alden Simons (March 10, 1913 – June 11, 2004) was an American electrical engineer best known for his pioneering contributions to the technical development of cable television in the United States, for the most part as chief engineer for the Jerrold Electronics Corporation.

Liquid-crystal-display televisions (LCD TV) are television sets that use liquid-crystal displays to produce images.

UHF television broadcasting is the use of ultra high frequency (UHF) radio for over-the-air transmission of television signals.

The Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is an open source application for Linux designed to allow any computer to function as a digital video recorder, in order to record and replay TV programming using the computer's hard drive.

TVU Networks Corporation is a company that manufactures live mobile television broadcasting equipment.

MUSE (Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding), was a dot-interlaced digital video compression system that used analog modulation for transmission to deliver 1125-line high definition video signals to the home.

ACRCloud (Formerly Syntec TV) is an automatic content recognition platform based on acoustic fingerprinting technology.

DaVinci3 (or DV3) is a graphics engine software used in set-top box platforms by NDS.

OnDemand is a brand name for a video-on-demand, UK based company owned by the On Demand Group, who provide mobile video services such as pay-per-view to over 25 million subscribers.

Sookbox LLC is an American, privately held, consumer electronics company that develops and sells distributed media servers.

Low-power broadcasting refers to a broadcast station operating at a low electrical power to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region, but often distinguished from "micropower broadcasting" (more commonly "microbroadcasting") and broadcast translators.

Link Electronics Ltd.

High Above - The untold story of Astra, Europe’s leading satellite company is a book describing the development of the European satellite provider SES, published in 2010 on the occasion of the company’s 25th anniversary by Broadgate Publications in Richmond, UK.

Monsoon Multimedia is a company that manufactures, develops and sells video streaming and place-shifting devices that allow consumers to view and control live television on PCs connected to a local (home) network or from remotely from a broadband-connected PC or mobile phone.

SageTV Media Center, now open source, was a proprietary, commercial DVR (Digital Video Recording) and HTPC (Home theater PC) software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

The Digital Command Center was a very large remote control introduced for RCA's high-end television sets; in 1983 for the Colortrak 2000 and the SJT400 CED player and in 1984 for the Dimensia Lyceum TV sets.

SONIFI Solutions, Inc.

Livestation is a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a data network.

A coupon-eligible converter box (CECB) was a digital television adapter that met eligibility specifications for subsidy "coupons" from the United States government.

Echolab was a company that designed and developed video production switchers for digital media markets, such as broadcasting, live production, and events.