Tuned in to digital TV

摘要

Clamason's automated transfer press line provides the ideal manufacturing solution for set-top boxes as the UK tunes in to digital TV All digital TV uses multiplexing to combine and compress multiple TV channels into a single transmission that needs to be decoded by a suitable digital receiver. Digital set-top boxes or digiboxes are the receivers for digital terrestrial TV (Freeview), digital satellite TV services (from providers BSkyB, BT Vision and Setanta Sports) and cable TV (Virgin Media) available to the UK viewing public. There are basically three types of set-top box offering different functions - reception only, recordable (on to disc or hard drive as in Sky Plus) and high-definition TV (the last-named being recordable but in the latest high-definition format, for example Sky HD).