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Interactive television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interactivity is supplied by the manipulation of the API of the particular software installed on a set-top box, referred to as 'middleware' due to its intermediary position in the operating environment. Development of applications using these technologies is traditionally drawn out due to the limitations of the set-top box, the large amount of testing required and the lack of standardisation of deployed units. Some interactive television projects are consumer electronics boxes which provide set-top interactivity, while other projects are supplied by the cable television companies (or multiple system operator, or MSO) as a system-wide solution. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interactive_television   (486 words)

Set-top boxes If boxes manufactured for China are on the ragged edge of profitability, and if the volume of boxes sold into this region absorbs a majority of the manufacturing capacity of a set-top box company, that company may suffer significantly from incorporating a costly technology into the box. The boxes may then be shipped from the cable company to the user and, finally, the user may ship a defective unit back to the cable company for repair. When the boxes have a low per-unit cost, shipping costs become a part of the total cost equation, especially when purchases can be in the hundreds of thousands of units. broadcastengineering.com /mag/broadcasting_settop_boxes   (1697 words)

Tech Digest: Digital set-top boxes Its PVR box, a 160GB model with three tuners is expected to be available in the next couple of months. The box will also allow you to seamlessly switch from playback to live recording, meaning that you can start watching the first part something that you’re recording: useful if you walk in ten minutes late for Trisha, for example. Sadly, this digital terrestrial (Freeview) box isn't inside out, but it is probably one of the cheapest we've seen retailing for just £39.99 from Unbeatable. www.techdigest.tv /digital_settop_boxes/index.html   (970 words)

The Rainier Group Cable TV Service - Troubleshooting Tips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) I have one of your settop boxes and I have snow on all channels. You also tape off the settop by putting the settop on the channel you want to tape and put your VCR tuner to channel 3 when you set up the timer for taping. One side of the split is fed to the settop and the other is fed to the other TV input. www.rainierconnect.com /support/catv.asp   (541 words)

Social Software for Set-Top boxes... (plasticbag.org - new version) For this reason your personalised settings would have to have all kinds of options to help you control how you were being represented to the wider world that were as simple to use and unobtrusive as possible. Primary among the tools at your disposal would be your ability to tell your set-top box not to advertise that you were watching any shows marked as for adults only and to mark certain channels as similarly private. One of the core functions of a socially enabled set-top box would be to create the impression of watching television alongside your peer group and friends - even if you were geographically distant from one another. www.stinkbadger.com /archives/2005/04/social_software_for_settop_boxes.shtml   (1421 words)

Navic Networks Press Releases - 6/7/2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) This solution makes connectivity to, from, and among digital settops more cost-effective and efficient, as well as eases the deployment of data-intense applications such as electronic program guides, email, and other interactive services. Navic's SDS offering is a combination of network infrastructure, data transfer applications, database management, and professional services, which increases the capacity for data transfer and optimizes the efficiency of data transfer within the existing network infrastructure. "The data transfer capabilities of most settop networks are built on extensions to legacy systems originally designed before there was a need to transfer much data to and from settop boxes," said Terri Swartz, vice president of marketing for Navic Networks. www.navic.tv /press/20010606.html   (465 words)

Gilder Technology They want to sell chips to settop boxes because they are in the business of selling chips. The computer will be able to embody a settop box in the course of its routine functions. When you compare that with this effort to put everything into a settop box for $200 or $300 over the next few years, it all looks pretty insignificant. www.gilder.com /public/articles_about/interview2.html   (908 words)

CNN - Sun moves into set-top boxes in Europe - November 4, 1998 The agreement is being touted by Sun as another milestone in its efforts to target the set-top embedded device market, since its high-profile deal in January with Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) to include Java in all deployed set-top boxes, and a subsequent deal with Hitachi's set-top program in June. The boxes, which receive services broadcast to homes via satellite and cable according to specified open standards, are scheduled to ship early next year. In the past, many set-top box makers designed their own "homegrown" embedded OSs, but as interest in the devices has picked up, manufacturers have moved towards commercial operating systems like Chorus and Windows CE. www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9811/04/settopbox.idg/index.html   (1126 words)

ECB Projects - STB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) The settop box specification describes requirements for the qualification of an embedded bi-directional Euro-DOCSIS1.0 cable modem within a DVB-C settop box. The specifications have been agreed in a working group consisting of chip and settop box manufacturers, cable operators and tComLabs. The goals and objectives of the settop box process are to create a “fl box” qualification test approach for the Euro-DOCSIS1.0 cable modem embedded in a DVB-C settop box making the process as similar as possible to the external Euro-DOCSIS CMs. www.euro-docsis.com /settopbox.htm   (126 words)

Digital set-top boxes The DTV Team soon learned that the real battle for control of the transition to digital is being fought between the cable industry and the consumer electronics industry, which has partnered with DBS services around the world to compete in the lucrative multichannel television business. The primary objective in this battle is control of the digital set-top box — the gateway to hundreds of millions of existing TV receivers deployed worldwide. As part of the plans to consolidate operations, Dish Networks and DirecTV have indicated that they plan to replace millions of set-top boxes, as the systems currently are incompatible with one another. broadcastengineering.com /aps/acquisition/broadcasting_digital_settop_boxes   (1407 words)

Alcatel enhances its Triple Play and Video integration capabilities with next generation Open Media Client software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) The Alcatel 5955 Open Media Client is a set of software components for IP settop boxes, which add functionality in the settop box required for advanced features needed for IPTV and enables full lifecycle content management. In order to enhance consistency in the operator's interaction with set top boxes and simplify the management of multi-vendor video environments, Alcatel will be sublicensing the Open Media Client (OMC) as reference client software to leading IP set top box software porting partners, chipset (reference design) vendors, and set top box vendors. With the Open Media Client, Alcatel is defining an industry reference model for IP set top box vendors to interwork with Alcatel's Open Media Suite, facilitating the integration process for the service provider and lowering the integration costs. www.home.alcatel.com /vpr/vpr.nsf/14b4f31604375b17c12567a8004a2c4d/56e4a5f9715cfdbfc1256f9400391e97!OpenDocument   (521 words)

Preferred LiveTV PVR with dual tuners?? :: Windows Media Center General Discussions :: xpMCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) During the setup wizard, M$ identifies one PVR and its corresponding input as settop box "a" (I was using cable TV settop boxes) and the second as settop box "b". And, I'd prefer that that box NOT be tied to recording in MCE unless it is needed for dual recording. Basically I'd love to set one PVR/settop box combo as the primary Recorder (this does all the recording if there is a single recording scheduled), and/OR, conversely, set the second as the primary LiveTV PVR/settop box combo and should only be used in the case that dual recording is scheduled. www.xpmce.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=264496   (1319 words)

Movie and TV Industry Fight to Limit Usefulness of Settop DVD Burners | Operation Gadget Since they have already decided that resistance to any sort of DVD recording capability in settop boxes is futile, they are working to cripple any DVD burner that is ultimately included. So if your set-top box dies and you get a new one, or if you move, or change providers, those shows you recorded will be useless. I think that cable and satellite customers should be free to choose their own DVD burning technology, rather than have to take burners that are embedded in settop boxes that most people only rent. www.operationgadget.com /2004/04/movie_and_tv_in.html   (706 words)

XHTML Basic - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) XHTML Basic is a subset of XHTML, including minimal set of XHTML modules for document structure, images, forms, basic tables, and object support. XHTML Basic is suitable for mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes. It will replace WML and C-HTML as more compliant user agents are developed. open-encyclopedia.com /XHTML_Basic   (136 words)

Press Releases: 2001 This is the first cable modem within a settop box that has been qualified. A cable modem within a settop box is qualified and not certified because only the modem part is tested and not the settop box operation. The settop box is loaded with MPEG-stream during some of the tests to check that the settop box operation does not disturb the modem operation. www.tcomlabs.com /About/Press-2001.htm   (1593 words)

Net4TV Voice: News You Can Use Details on features and pricing of the settop boxes are not yet available as both AOL and Philips have declined to discuss the joint venture, but sources say the boxes could be ready as early as this summer. European manufacturer NetGem announced a Linux-based settop box with cable modem at the National Association of Broadcaster show in Las Vegas this week. The company already offers a dial-up settop box with a 33.6-kbps modem, microphone, smart card reader, and remote, as well as an optional infrared keyboard. www.net4tv.com /voice/story.cfm?StoryID=838   (423 words)

G4 - Feature - Set-top Boxes at CES Instead of a mere couch potato device, it's being turned into a portal to the teeming ocean of digital data, two-way entertainment, and new and improved viewing. We saw set-top boxes-- a device that marries a computer with your television-- of all sorts. At the show, it highlighted a number of set-top boxes using its browser, along with a Nintendo 64 game station. www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/20000/Settop_Boxes_at_CES.html   (246 words)

Interactive TV Top.Box.News @ Ruel.Net Set-Top Page [ http://ruel.net/top.box.news/ ] (U.S. retail sales of cable settop boxes begin in July 2000, while U.S. cable companies will still be leasing boxes until 2005.) For fans of telephone-based settop boxes, the patchy introduction of cable interactive TV services is one of the reasons why telephone-based settop boxes will still be around. You can see that various settop companies are designing their telephone-based settop boxes to not only have the telephone modem but also announced options for telephone DSL, ethernet, cable modems, etc. Box Music Network and ACTV will research viewer satisfaction with giving the viewer control over interactive concert programming. ruel.net /top/box.news.14.htm   (1642 words)

SAMSUNG's Digital World - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) The SSD-200F is currently the only settop box that can be connected with commercial VOD service networks using ATM transmission hardware. ATM settop boxes are now being developed by Philips, Divicom, NEC and Hewlett-Packard, but Samsung is the first to develop an ATM set-up box that can be connected with the BBT optical transmission hardware now being tested for commercial application. The settop box decompresses audio and video signals transmitted from the video server through the digital network to the home. www.samsung.com /PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=19960911_0000000251   (566 words)

TUXIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) This integrated solution will allow OEMs to bring a new generation of multimedia settop boxes to market that will provide consumers with an enhanced interactive television viewing experience. For example, a consumer using a settop box built with TASTE and CyberPro could watch a football game and simultaneously select different camera angles, look up player statistics, order a pizza, e-mail, chat or instant message with other fans, and arrange for tickets and airfare to next week's game. This will allow developers maximum flexibility in implementing CyberPro to configure a settop box to their exact specifications. www.tuxia.com /06_aug_press_release_4.htm   (816 words)

Net4TV Voice: Microsoft Unveils Windows for TV; UPC Defects to Liberate The interactive television platform will be available for both the Microsoft next-generation PC operating system currently known by its code name of "Whistler," as well as in cable television settop boxes using a streamlined version of the Microsoft CE operating system. Microsoft was careful to point out that despite its PC offerings, the settop box is alive and well for the foreseeable future and there is room in the marketplace for both platforms. And the marketplace is potentially huge, with an estimated 250 million enhanced TV set-top boxes installed worldwide by 2004, a potential revenue market of $9.9 billion. www.net4tv.com /voice/Story.cfm?storyID=2818   (818 words)

[mythtv] Lirc, sony settop boxes and xine problems [mythtv] Lirc, sony settop boxes and xine problems I have a Sony DHG-M55CB digital cable set top box and I'm having trouble locating anyone with a working config.. Re: [mythtv] Lirc, sony settop boxes and xine problems Alan Gonzalez www.mail-archive.com /mythtv-dev@mythtv.org/msg02647.html   (171 words)

Demand for cable set-top boxes remains flat; Scientific-Atlanta is exception to trend The global market for cable set-top boxes is projected to be flat again during 2003, according to research by In-Stat/MDR, the high-tech market research firm. It’s the second consecutive year that demand for digital cable set-top boxes has remained soft as cable TV operators around the world continue to reduce their capital expenditures. Worldwide digital cable set-top box unit shipments are projected to reach 9.97 million this year, a slight decrease from the 10.03 million unit shipments in 2002. bth.broadcastengineering.com /ar/broadcasting_demand_cable_settop   (491 words)

SeaChange Introduces ITV System For Real-Life Video-On-Demand To The Home Since operators are working with a variety of digital settop boxes, which are critical to the two-way communication between cable headends and viewers, SeaChange has collaborated with General Instrument, Pioneer, Scientific- Atlanta, and OpenCable, to meet cable operators' immediate and future requirements. This settop navigation software links digital settop boxes with headend operations so viewers immediately get movie line-up changes or gain access to new services as they are added and upgraded. The automated software eliminates the massive operational challenge of constantly updating settop boxes across a cable system with thousands of homes passed. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-16-1998/0000803548&EDATE=   (958 words)

CNN - Set-top boxes, home networking grow up - January 2, 1999 LAS VEGAS (IDG) -- Set-top boxes designed to enhance plain old television and home-networking products that link PCs with other electronics are expected to take center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show here next week. Set-top boxes will be on display from industry leaders such as General Instrument and Scientific-Atlanta. TiVo and Replay Networks "offer a really logical progression to convergence because they take a lot of computer technology and apply it to television in a manner that is very easy for the consumer to understand," Baker said. www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9901/02/homenet.idg/index.html   (1053 words)

Core of IT: The Virtual Machine: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) In early 1993 the Green team heard about a Time-Warner request for proposal for a settop box operating system. First Person continued work on settop boxes until early 1994, when it concluded that like smart consumer electronics settop boxes were more hype than reality. However around this time it was realized that the requirements for smart consumer electronics and settop box software (small, platform independent secure reliable code) were the same requirements for the nascent web. cne.gmu.edu /itcore/virtualmachine/history.htm   (1070 words)

The 7 Deadly PS2 Pitfalls The US audience has never bought into the settop box as a concept. In Japan, the settop box concept could work very well, but in that country, PC penetration is almost not worth noting. Making the sale to US and European audiences will be a tough sale, but if Sony plays up the DVD capabilities and the gaming of the console, they will be able to overcome the settop stigma. www.playersc.com /news/7_deadly_ps2_pitfalls121099.htm   (971 words)

Social Software for Set-Top boxes... (plasticbag.org) As for the layer thing and I apologise for staying with sport, but Sky are really exploiting this with the viewer being able to watch more than one match on one channel, the BBC did it with Wimbledon but should exploit it more. It could be interesting to someday add an addendum to this post along the lines of "How to make social software for STBs accessible." Then at least the ultimate system implementers would have to make a clear and unambiguous decision to discriminate or not to discriminate. But there is no in principle reason that they could not extend it to tv viewing - just have to get the right software on the box to integrate the TV signal and overlay the same functionality. www.plasticbag.org /archives/2005/03/social_software_for_settop_boxes.shtml   (4832 words)

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