The present cable broadcast system, called "the fourth channel" by most people in Taiwan, is actually different both from the genuine cable television of the future, and from the shared community antennae installed with government permission to solve the problem of poor television reception in remote areas. But the general public usually refers to all three as "cable television."
有線播送系統，亦即是一般通稱的「第四台」，與未來真正的有線電視，以及為瞭解決偏遠地區無線電視接收不良、經政府核准設立的社區共同天線並不相同，但一般民眾常把此三者視為一體，且通稱有線電視。