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Television
Any device used to transmit and recieve moving images, usually accompanied by sound.
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direct pickup
Consumer electronics; Television
Undesired broadcast station ingress from the air and into the cable television system or customer equipment
diplexer
Consumer electronics; Television
In broadband, a device that combines or splits differing frequency carriers.
dipole
Consumer electronics; Television
A one-half wavelength center fed antenna consisting of two radiating elements.
demodulator
Consumer electronics; Television
An electronic device used to remove the intelligence riding a carrier wave so that it may be displayed or processed.
cycle
Consumer electronics; Television
A complete change in a waveform from zero to a negative peak to zero, then to a positive peak and back to zero.
core shrink-back
Consumer electronics; Television
When the center conductor of a coaxial cable or the entire cable itself pulls out of a connector due to temperature related contraction, also known a "suckout".
cross modulation
Consumer electronics; Television
A type of distortion where modulation from a channel or channels is superimposed onto another channel when they pass through a non-linear circuit.
