A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance...
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The Acorn Online Media Set Top Box was produced by the Online Media division of Acorn Computers Ltd for the Cambridge Cable and Online Media Video on...
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A boxed set or (its US name) box set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally...
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Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (redirect from Hybrid IPTV set-top box)
home. To watch hybrid digital TV, consumers will need a hybrid IPTV set-top box or Smart TV with a range of input connectors, including Ethernet as well...
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Digital media player (redirect from Fully-loaded set-top box)
subscription-based over-the-top content services. These devices usually have a compact form factor (either as a compact set-top box, or a dongle designed to...
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them on a large screen television set. Unlike standard set-top boxes, which sit on top or below the TV set, a set-back box has a smaller form factor to enable...
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ATSC tuner (redirect from HDTV set-top box)
tuners are usually integrated into a television set, VCR, digital video recorder (DVR), or set-top box which provides audio/video output connectors of...
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Digital television adapter (redirect from DTV set-top box)
normally does not refer to satellite TV, which has always required a set-top box either to operate the big satellite dish, or to be the integrated receiver/decoder...
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at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 7, 2018. "Top Grossing Movies in Their 3rd Weekend at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved...
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Amstrad (section Set-top box)
business during the 2000s was the manufacture of satellite television set-top boxes for Sky, which Amstrad had started in 1989 as the then sole supplier...
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ITV Digital (section Set top boxes)
but to sell prepaid set top boxes to win customers back from rival services. Even when they decided to sell prepaid set top boxes (under the ONprepaid...
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Nvidia Shield TV (redirect from Nvidia Shield (set-top box))
resolution. The new base model uses a cylindrical form factor rather than a set-top box style, and has 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of flash storage, expandable via...
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DVB-T set-top box, a recorder or an integrated television receiver. As of July 2013, there were approximately 200,000 subscribers. In late 2013, Top Up TV...
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The Apple Interactive Television Box (AITB) was a television set-top box developed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) in partnership with a number of...
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Tata Play (section Tata Play Binge+ Set-Top Box)
Play entered into an agreement with French firm Vantiva to supply 4K set top boxes from early 2015. The company was formerly known as Tata Sky. Tata Sky...
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Pace plc was a British company which developed set-top boxes (STBs), advanced residential gateways, software and services for the pay-TV and broadband...
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The cable company will provide set-top boxes based on the level of service a customer purchases, from basic set-top boxes with a standard-definition picture...
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Application Platform (OCAP), which defines a set of APIs for the development of applications for set-top boxes and similar devices. The profile consists...
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Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 is a double album released by Atlantic Records on 20 September 1993. This box set features the rest of the English rock band...
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Like other set-top boxes, converter boxes usually provide multiple options for the output channel (either 2/3 or 3/4) so that the same box can be used...
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subscribers and runs in a closed network. IPTV normally requires the use of a set-top box, which receives the encoded television content in the MPEG transport...
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2018-01-30. "How Big Cable killed the open set-top box—and what to do about it". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-01-30. "Set-top shakeup is in the cards". CNET. 2007-07-01...
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because of historical practice. Included on the list are charts of the top box-office earners (ranked by both the nominal and real value of their revenue)...
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Germany, Ireland, Italy and in the UK. The name also refers to the Sky Q set-top box. Sky Q launched in 2016 replacing the previous Sky+ and Sky X services...
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language created by James Gosling in 1989, initially for Sun Microsystems' set-top box project. The language later evolved to become Java. In 1985, Sun Microsystems...
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Billboard 200, the box set was described by Los Angeles Times journalist Dennis Hunt as "one of the most expensive albums ever to reach the Top 40", noting its...
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merged. TV Guide On Screen for digital cable set top boxes premiered in the DigiCable series of set top boxes from General Instrument shortly thereafter...
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over-the-top (OTT) media services on televisions and personal computers. Television VOD systems can stream content, either through a traditional set-top box or...
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DVB-T/DVB-T2 tuner, either in a separate set-top box or built into the TV set. Since 2008, all new TV sets sold in the United Kingdom have a built-in...
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DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (or DSG) is a specification describing how out-of-band data is delivered to a cable set-top box. Cable set-top boxes need a reliable...
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