11.   Blonder Tongue said its products are used in the acquisition, conversion, and protection of television signals.

12.   Boeing also may get involved in in-flight entertainment, Clarkson said, using new communications technologies to broadcast television signals into screens on the back of seats.

13.   A company in Ridgeland, Miss., is developing technology that would send and receive cell phone calls on a little-used part of a broadcast television signal.

14.   A receiver converts television signals from cable, satellite or antennas, digitizes the signal and saves it on a hard drive.

15.   A predetermined message can be sent with the television signal.

16.   But for the rest, the problems above do not apply to the direct transmission of digital television signals.

17.   But it does not receive television signals.

18.   But President Clinton would not auction off the television signals outright.

19.   But Pfeiffer thinks the real breakthrough for the marriage of TV and the computer will be when all television broadcast signals are digital, the language of a computer.

20.   Cable television systems were designed, obviously, to carry television signals, which require far more digital bits than even the quickest data connections generally available to consumers.