If you want to record The Sopranos, you have to set the cable box to HBO and tell the MX when to start and stop.
That means he doesn't put much stock in all the hype at the Consumer Electronics Show around the almighty trend of convergence: systems that can shuttle your movies, songs and photos from the Internet to the set-top box to the PC and back without calling an IT specialist.
The sets are apparently targeting consumers who use their TV primarily for gaming or multimedia activities, or to customers who prefer to use a set-top-box to receive digital and HD content.
For the Roku user base, they consider the Roku set top box to be their primary choice for watching television.
The self-install package uses wires to link set top box with the computers in customers' home, but eventually Telewest said it will provide wireless connectors to make installation even easier.
The TV Anywhere service is available to UK customers but they will need to rent a Tivo set-top box from the company to use the smartphone and tablet apps.
Hoping eventually to do to the set-top-box duopoly what it did to the videogame duopoly with its PlayStation consoles, the company announced in September 1999 that it would distribute 3 million of its new set-top boxes through Cablevision in Long Island, New York.
The argument centres around a box set to mark the 10th anniversary of legendary album Nevermind.
Viewers will need yet another set-top box to view 3D content likely limited to "cartoons" at first.
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One of those TiVo-like devices was the set top box supplied to users of the Dish satellite system.
PopBox is the first over-the-top set-top box to support the stereoscopic RealD Format for the delivery and display of high-quality 3D content.
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Krikorin previously founded Slingbox which produced a set-top box to allow consumers to watch their video subscription service from anywhere in the world.
The other, less interesting stipulation, is that you might be entitled to at least one free set-top box or CableCARD for up to five years, depending on what package you subscribe to or if you are on Medicaid.
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In brief, the physical installation simply involved plugging the AV cables (included) into the SlingBox and our set-top box (a Philips Freeview box, to be precise), then taping a couple of IR emitters onto the front of our set-top box, and finally hooking the SlingBox up to our router (via a couple of SlingLink ethernet wall-plug bridges as our router was too far away).
In the future, Microsoft could also license Kinect software to TVs and cable set-top box makers just like Google embeds its Android software in TVs to come out with Google TV.
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Not surprisingly, the very expensive Star Trek box set failed to make the top ten.
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According to the box set's compiler, Ribas, business manager Ewart Abner in particular had some unusual practices.
If you do that, you can move your set-top box back to where my Apple TV now sits.
In April, the company expanded its product line by adding Xiaomi TV, a set-top box similar to Apple TV.
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"Sun has become a premier software provider to the set-top box market, and enjoys a good reputation in the cable industry, " says Cynthia Brumfield, a senior analyst at Paul Kagan Associates.
The project has evolved a long way, from XBMC spinoff with a focus on support for locally stored and streaming video, then moving to a set-top box, offering OTA live TV viewing, and now its latest incarnation as a more conventionally shaped box built for OTA and ClearQAM channel viewing with the possibility of easier cable access in the future.
Say you want to just sit right in front of your TV and use your set-top-box (STB) to play games on your TV.
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Distributed DVR allows for any hard drive on the home's network to act as the storage device for your DVR, theoretically eliminating the need to even include an HDD in the set-top-box and giving customers the unadulterated ability to scale their storage capacity to fit their needs.
That Staples varies its prices dependent on your distance to an Office Depot is the very argument in favour of allowing the big box stores like WalMart to set up where ever.
The most interesting speculation is that Xbox is specifically designed to become a set-top box for television.
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Intel is not only producing a TV set top box, it plans to provide streaming content over the internet.
With the potential set-top box market expected to be five times the size of that for personal computers, Sun sees a bigger opportunity in this marketplace, Brumfield adds.
He didn't figure in how fast the home-router market would get saturated or how quickly the set-top box would begin to move inside the guts of connected TVs.
While there have been a wide variety of entrants into the OTT set-top box market, to date the category has been dominated by two players: Apple TV and Roku.
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