Patent ID: 7075585

Claim:
A receiver comprising: a tuner for receiving input RF signals and for converting said input RF signals to intermediate signals having an intermediate frequency (IF), said input RF signals encoding information in one of a plurality of formats; and a channel filter for receiving the intermediate signals, said channel filter comprising: an anti-aliasing filter for filtering said intermediate signals; an analog-to-digital converter for sampling said filtered intermediate signals and generating a digital representation thereof; a signal processor for processing said digital representation of said intermediate signals in accordance with said format of said input RF signal, said signal processor generating digital output signals indicative of information encoded in said input RF signal; and a plurality of demodulators, each coupled to receive output signals from said signal processor, each of said demodulators for demodulating said digital output signals according to one of said formats of said input RF signal, each of said demodulators generating video and audio baseband signals corresponding to said format of said input RF signal.