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television receiver - an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly"

boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television set, telly, tv set, tv, television

kinescope, picture tube, television tube - a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen

receiver, receiving system - set that receives radio or tv signals

television system, television - a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points

telecasting, television, TV, video - broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs

Translations

téléviseur

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It's actually a legal requirement under the Communications Act 2003 to have a TV licence if you're "using a television receiver to watch or record any television programmes as they're being shown on television".

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She covers drawing modernity: advertising and book illustrations; becoming an industrial designer; modernizing the home through radio; designed for electricity: Vasso's architectural interiors; Vassos and RCA: money, media, and modernism; the TRK-12: RCA's first mass-marketed television receiver, and John Vassos in postwar America.

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Hayley Bates, 22 of Glamorgan Close, Willenhall, admitted using a colour television receiver without a licence.

In the courts

The traffic code on which she was cited makes it a violation to drive a vehicle "if a television receiver, a video monitor, or a television or video screen" is visible, according to the LA Times.

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The Baird Televisor, the 30-line television receiver at the National Museum of Scotland

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Consequently, the court held that by the retransmission in question, the protected works are indeed communicated to a public within the meaning of Directive 2001/29 even though those subscribers are within the area of reception of that terrestrial television broadcast and may lawfully receive the broadcast on a television receiver. The initial broadcasters of programmes are fully entitled to ban their retransmission via the internet.

"It's a magical realism story about what might have happened if this young farm girl had had the knowledge to build a television receiver," McVay says.

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Students living at a community that offers bulk services often can simply pick up a television receiver at the registration desk, log in to a network via Ethernet or WiFi on their computer, and get started.

Cable included: while considered passe at many conventional communities, bulk video and Internet access agreements still make sense for student living communities

The authors of this paper have carried out an application of Probabilistic Intelligent Fault Diagnosis for television receiver system.

Probabilistic intelligent fault diagnosis in television receiver circuit using visual symptoms

If you choose not to have a television receiver, you do not have to buy a television licence.

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