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A cable box is a metal enclosure (found in the vicinity of a house that has cable service) that connects a house or building to the cable provider. The box is usually located near the connection points for other service connections (
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). Other locations of the cable box include centralized locations ( apartment buildings), lawns, or telephone poles. This feature serves as the demarcation point in which the provider's responsibility ends and the customer's responsibility (cabling and connections) begins.


Purpose

Cable boxes direct cable service to the cable wiring inside the
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being serviced. To control which channels are available to the subscriber, service providers may place analog filters at the transmitting or receiving end, a method once popular in the '90s although now less common.
Digital cable Digital cable is the distribution of cable television using digital data and video compression. The technology was first developed by General Instrument. By 2000, most cable companies offered digital features, eventually replacing their previo ...
providers now use digital methods to control the availability of channels.


See also

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Junction box An electrical junction box (also known as a "jbox") is an enclosure housing electrical connections. Junction boxes protect the electrical connections from the weather, as well as protecting people from accidental electric shocks. Functions of ...
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Digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using Digital signal, digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an ...
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Digital cable Digital cable is the distribution of cable television using digital data and video compression. The technology was first developed by General Instrument. By 2000, most cable companies offered digital features, eventually replacing their previo ...
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Box A box (plural: boxes) is a container with rigid sides used for the storage or transportation of its contents. Most boxes have flat, parallel, rectangular sides (typically rectangular prisms). Boxes can be very small (like a matchbox) or v ...