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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • The Six Pack is a box set released in 1987 by the American rock band ZZ Top. It comprises their first five albums, plus their seventh album, El Loco (1981)...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    specializes also in the development of digital connectivity devices such as set-top boxes and residential gateways. ADB's global headquarters are located in Bellevue...
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  • Christopher (17 February 2012), Blast over set-top box 'blowout' (PDF), AFR, retrieved 8 December 2012 Government Set Top Box Scheme Blows Out, Kogan Blog, 15 February...
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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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    performed by a set-top box manufactured by Sanyo Electric and marketed by the National Captioning Institute (NCI). (At that time a set-top decoder cost...
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    set-top box or other device ("down", "secondary" or "2"). When idle or powered off, VCRs will usually forward the signals from the TV to the set-top decoder...
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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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