Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

S/O

Nº de partie

2

Nombre total de parties

7

Ou

S/O

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

Synthetic casing and buttons; metal connectors

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

15,0 cm

Largeur

4,5 cm

Hauteur

2,3 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Communications

Catégorie

Télévision

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

Access

Pays

Chine

État/province

Inconnu

Ville

Inconnu

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Période

September, 2011

Canada

The donor and her sisters purchased this converter for their mother on August 30, 2011. The donor’s mother found that the picture on screen would fairly often become digitized (large pixels; garbled, partially blackened, jumpy and/or frozen image) and that she had to frequently adjust the “rabbit ears” on top of her television set to obtain a better picture. This is more symptomatic of issues with the antenna’s age, size, and/or gain more than it is indicative of any quality or functionality issues with the converter. Nonetheless, this constant adjustment proved to be very difficult for the owner, who is in her eighties. After using this product for a week, she abandoned it in favour of digital cable service from Rogers. The object was donated to the Museum shortly after. (From Acquisition Worksheet, in Supp. Info.)

Fonction

A device used to control some operations of another piece of equipment from a distance, in this case a television converter.

Technique

Since 2005, various countries worldwide have been gradually making a transition away from broadcasting analogue television signals. A transition to digital signals will allow the vacated frequency spectra formerly used by analog transmission to be reused for other communications purposes. Canada’s transition was completed by August 31, 2011. The CBC is permitted to use some analogue signals until August 31, 2012, when the Canadian transition will be officially complete. A converter such as this one enables incoming digital broadcast signals to be displayed on existing analogue receivers. It not only converts the signal from digital to analogue, but also alters the resolution and frame rates so that they are compatible for display on analogue television sets. (From Acquisition Worksheet, in Supp. Info.)

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

Proper front: All buttons labelled for function/ "Access/ HD TM"/ Inside battery compartment at proper back: two raised outlines of batteries molded into the plastic with the markings: "+/ UM-4/ AAA/ IECRO3.1.5V"/ White round sticker inside the battery compartment: "PASS/ 2008/ QC74"/ Numbers 1 to 12 around perimeter of sticker

Manque

Appears complete

Fini

Black synthetic rectangular remote with black, grey, red, green, yellow and blue buttons and white and red markings.

Décoration

S/O