Digibox

Trademark.

1. a brand name in the United Kingdom for an electronic device that receives and converts digital broadcast signals so they can be viewed on an analog television.

Digibox

/ ˈdɪdʒɪˌbɒks /

noun

1. a device which converts the signals from a digital television broadcast into a form which can be viewed on a standard television set

Word History and Origins

Origin of Digibox¹

C20: from digi ( tal ) (sense 3) + box ¹

Example Sentences

With Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw and The Killing's Sarah Lund now consigned to your DVD collection, here are six new style stars waiting on your digibox now.

From The Guardian

It has meant that we have had to buy a new aerial and digibox, but it is worth it.

From The Guardian

Gannon looks a very astute appointment after impressing at County and the Posh, an innovative tactician and with the famously forthright attitude that led him to snub a Sky Sports interview before Stockport's ultimately successful League Two playoff final because the company had failed to mend his broken digibox.

From The Guardian

Then I saw smoke coming out of my digibox and I jumped up quick and turned off the box at the plug.

From The Guardian