Gabe Gagliano predicts a March reboot of the Apple TV box-top set.
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).
There are two other French comedies in the box-office top five so far this year.
Taylor paired a black, box-pleat top with a girly peplum and a frayed design in a tweed skirt done in wine red.
Even so, device makers are hard at work striking content deals to help them insert themselves--in the form of yet another set-top box--into your living room.
On televisions, this is achieved via a small set-top box -- a prototype of which approaches the size and noise level of a mini-fridge -- that plugs into the video source and the TV and converts the video in real-time with virtually no latency.
We do know that Microsoft has been working on IPTV stuff for years now (they already offer a set-top box-based system that's being test marketed by a handful of telcos around the world), so it wouldn't be a shock to see them try and leverage the Xbox 360 as a platform.
Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta may be guilty of the most bizarre power button behavior for its digital video recorder distributed by TimeWarner Cable.
But other big players are digging in:The set-top box makers Scientific-Atlanta and Pioneer and the satellite provider EchoStar lobbed antitrust actions against Gemstar after Yuen had hit them with patent suits.
So, while the Xbox 360 experience still has a few unique elements that can't be matched by the brand-new Echo -- the animated transitions are still something almost no other set-top box can do -- we found the overall experience more enjoyable than what we've become accustomed to recently.
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Areas of concern: Several areas have been under pressures, he says: consumer, set-top-box, public sector, switching.
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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Cisco also is diversifying, acquiring companies like set-top-box maker Scientific-Atlanta.
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.
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.
One half, Motorola Mobility, got the cellphone and cable set-top box units and ex- Qualcomm exec Sanjay Jha as CEO.
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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Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
Set-top box manufacturers and satellite-TV providers are fighting Gemstar to keep their own guides, and now four large U.S. cable companies are mobilizing to launch a service that will go head on with Gemstar's interactive guide.
So lately it seems to be veering toward developing a set-top box, a sort of souped-up Apple TV device, that could be used with existing TVs.
The Wall Street Journal has anonymous sources saying the company will unveil an Internet-connected set-top box that combines live, on-demand and recorded TV to compete with the likes of Apple and Google.
"Two years ago, there were grand plans to have a very expensive set-top box in which everything was converged - the telephone, the internet and the TV, " said Mickey Kalifa, UK general manager of OpenTV, which makes the software sitting inside many set-top boxes.
Wii U has to make the case to turn to it rather than a set-top box connected TV, competing games console - Xbox's extensive range of TV partners makes it a formidable competitor in this respect - and even a tablet or smartphone.
Claiming an unnamed source in the video distribution industry, the rumor suggests a plan to deliver a set-top box with DVR, rolled out on a city-by-city basis as it negotiates channel agreements.
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The all-important "back" button in the Lexus is a small box in the top-right corner of the display.
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Amazon is developing two smartphones, an audio-only streaming device and a set-top box, said the people.
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The Slingbox 500 features built-in Wi-Fi and integrated IR emitters for controlling a set-top box.
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Cisco Systems yesterday denied any interest in getting rid of its set-top box business.
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One of the first Digital DNA products is a set- top box made by Motorola.
This would be for a full on Apple TV, rather than a set-top box.
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