Back when broadcast television was first switching over from analog to digital most people needed to get a converter box to watch ... The hardware includes a Thompson TV tuner, IR receiver for ...

This week it was [Al Williams] with “Things Your TV No Longer Needs“, a range of gadgets from the analogue TV era ... down my backpack was a UHF converter, a set-top box from before set ...

It transforms digital broadcasts in standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) to analog. Also called a "DTV, ATSC, digital or set-top converter box," "D/A converter" (DAC) or "digital TV ...

Earlier TVs accepted only analog video, and converter boxes use DACs to convert digital TV broadcasts to analog (see TV converter box). See DTV. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.