1.   It receives an analog video signal and converts it to a digital signal.

2.   And sending video signals over copper, experts say, is like trying to push Niagara Falls through a garden hose.

3.   ATM technology boosts the capacity of existing communications lines, enabling them to carry video signals and data as well as voice signals.

4.   Bell Atlantic still must win approval from the Federal Communications Commission on a market-by-market basis to upgrade its cable systems to carry video signals.

5.   Bell Atlantic still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission on a market-by-market basis to alter its cable systems to carry video signals.

6.   All of these systems rely on complicated mathematics to take the video signal and compress it into something that can be transmitted over the Internet.

7.   Broadcast.com Inc. of Dallas will use its servers to pump the video signal onto the high-speed backbone circuits of the Internet.

8.   But in passing video signals to your monitor, the box degrades them, making some high-performance video modes unusable.

9.   C-Cube makes chips that translate digital video signals from satellite broadcast into television images.

10.   C-Cube makes chips used to translate digital video signals into television images.