The need for what’s called antenna tuning—either by adjusting the antenna itself or via a matching circuit between power-amplifier output and the antenna—is almost as old as wireless itself. Even in ...

I recently bought a tuner off of an online marketplace – a Denon TU680NAB, arguably one of the best tuners of the modern age. It was developed by Denon in cooperation with the National Association of ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc., a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today introduced the industry’s first single-chip hybrid TV receiver family designed to simplify the design ...

This is the first article in a two-part series about over-the-air digital television reception technology, which is being added to TV sets in accordance with the FCC's tuner mandate, and plug-and-play ...

Friday marks the end of analog television broadcasting. And while you may be rejoicing because it means the end of all those public-service announcements and crawls interrupting your favorite shows, ...

(1) The electronic circuit in an analog or digital TV that latches onto a TV channel and filters out the signals. See carrier and QAM. (2) A plug-in card or USB module for a computer that tunes in ...

How do I know if I have an analog or digital television set? To check whether your TV set can receive over-the-air digital broadcast signals, take a look at your owner's manual or look on the set for ...

You can pay a monthly fee to your cable provider for a time-shifting DVR, but if you prefer control and flexibility to DRM and, well, that monthly fee, you can roll your own DVR with a TV tuner for ...

1. When will the transition from analog to DTV broadcasting occur? The Congress has now passed legislation requiring all conventional “analog” TV broadcasting to stop on February 17, 2009. After that ...