A Motorola digital cable box is used to changed an analog television to digital viewing. The cable box needs to be connected to a receiver such as a roof antenna and then to the television. The television then has to scan the box to locate signals that it can receive.
A Sky Digital box is a type of cable box. It is an HD cable box that records television shows that you set for it to record. It can hold up to 60 hours of HD shows.
If his TV is cable ready and your cable company offers basic cable with out a cable box then just use a cable rated splitter and run the cable to his TV without a box he will only get basic and probably advanced basic. You need a cable box or a TV with a built in decoder to get digital signals.
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The digital cable box is now a necessity if you want to watch cable television. The digital cable box operates by converting and unscrambling satellite signals into a screen that transmits them as digital images. They can be bought at department stores fairly cheap and are now common household items.
When the cable box says "boot", it means that the cable box is booting/re-booting. Don't do anything yet, wait until the display goes blank, then in a couple of minutes, the time will appear.
If by converter box you mean a digital converter box, the type that are being subsidized by the government, you don't. If you mean a tuner box, it is because the cable line is transmitting data, and it has to be interpreted into a video signal your TV can use.
A LAN is a "Local Area Network". Your cable box is providing one or more Ethernet ports by means of which you can access the Internet.
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A cable box is a device attached to a set top box connecting a house to a cable service.
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Not if it is THEIR cable box. You pay to use the box. No pay, no box.
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Donald Walter Kirk invented the cable box.
You can select the cable length in the option box.
Sometimes a cable box malfunctions because of a power surge that consequently fries the box, unfortunately. Other times the cable box is not compatible with the TV.