Talk:ATSC tuner
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[edit] "Tuner" is correct, not "receiver"
I question the "Technical discussion" claim that perhaps "receiver" is more accurate. As used in the U.S. since the All Channels Act (more commonly called the "All Channel Receiver Act") in the 1960's, if not before, the term "receiver" means a full-blown TV set which both selects ('tunes') the channel and displays ('receives') the picture. A "tuner" is the channel-selecting component of a receiver or other device (such as a VCR or digital-to-analog converter).--RBBrittain 03:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- The receiver is receiving the VHF/UHF EM wave, processing it, and outputting an audio/video signal. The tuner is just one component in the box. Your perspective seems to be oriented towards what is the common lingo. And I am not disagreeing with what you said. What I am suggesting is what the common lingo should be. If you take a common stereo AV receiver and strip out many of its components but leave the tuner, then you have what is commonly called a tuner. Daniel.Cardenas 05:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- There are three parts to a TV set as I understand it: the tuner (in the RF sense) which receives an RF signal from an antenna and demodulates it down to baseband, the decoder which converts a demodulated NTSC or ATSC signal to component or RGB video, and the monitor which displays the image. Can you cite a part of the All Channels Act that states the definitions used by federal regulation? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 03:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] DTV Question
So, according to this article, I would be able to buy a portable TV, or any TV, with complete digital reception as early as March of 2007? --HG707 21:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's more likely that no traditional portable TVs will be sold at all as of March 2007. The closest thing I could find was this page on about, which claims that mobile phones will replace portable TVs, offering a cable-like programming package. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 03:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge w/ tuner
There is little rationale for this subject to be separated from that of digital tuner. At best, the facts discussed here apply equally to DVB-T and ISDB-T tuners, and all would be better covered in a combined article. algocu 17:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- >There is little rationale for this subject to be separated from that of digital tuner.
- What makes you say that? I see little or no duplication of content. Perhaps digital tuner should be merged with analog tuner, since most tuners are becoming digital.
- >At best, the facts discussed here apply equally to DVB-T and ISDB-T tuners, and all would be better covered in a combined article.
- Please feel free to create such an article. Daniel.Cardenas 18:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
