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A bus network, or any transmission line for that matter, has signal bounce when the signal encounters a change in characteristic impedance.

An ideal transmission line has constant characteristic impedance and infinite electrical length. This means that the line must be terminated at both ends in the correct impedance, otherwise there is a mismatch, and a portion of the signal will be reflected back to the transmitter at the point of the mismatch, causing distortion and/or damage.

As an example, a typical Cable Television system has a characteristic impedance of 75 ohms. If you use a splitter, and then don't use one of the splitter's outputs, you need to install a 75 ohm terminator. Otherwise, the discontinuity between 75 ohms and infinity ohms will cause a reflection (or bounce) of the signal back towards the transmitter, resulting in interference. Since there is a delay in this reflection, due to the propagation time of the cable, this reflection might show up as vertical bars in your television's picture, in the worst case, as ghosting, in the intermediate case, or as fuzziness, in the best case.

In this age of digital television, this interference might show up in other subtle, or not so subtle, ways, depending on the modulation technique employed. The previous example of bars, ghosts, and fuzziness was based on the old system using NTSC encoding

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