cable box

English

Noun

cable box (plural cable boxes)

  1. (television) set top box connecting a house to its cable service.
  2. (television) A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.
  3. (television) A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV

Hypernyms

See also
  • satellite receiver
  • television converter
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