The most interesting speculation is that Xbox is specifically designed to become a set-top box for television.
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Apple has been in talks with cable companies about a set-top box for watching television for years, only making some progress recently.
The idea behind this initiative, to get advertisers to think way outside the television box and its ubiquitous 60-second spots, is not wrong.
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Eliminating the need for a PC or a separate, dedicated box under the television, DivX TV represents a true step forward in connected entertainment.
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Money Box has seen one television advert which has a small warning on the screen for just eight seconds in a 39 second advert.
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Details are a little hazy at the moment, but apparently Dean Takahashi over at San Jose Mercury News posted and then quickly pulled a post from his blog about how Robbie Bach and Bill Gates were going to announce that the Xbox 360 will soon be able to double as a set-top box for Internet Protocol Television.
It may also help Google that Motorola has a lot of background in the television set-top box business, which is technically akin to wireless.
We then looked at each movie's estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office, DVD and television earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.
If so, they could easily follow Apple into the set-top box business, if not a full television.
The YouView set top box integrates content delivered by broadband and television aerial.
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Both Replay and TiVo have designed a box with a hard drive that can record television from any source.
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For the Roku user base, they consider the Roku set top box to be their primary choice for watching television.
On February 8, 2010, Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) completed its acquisition of its television systems and set-top box business lines.
The technology could allow users to stream video from mobile devices to their television sets, without a set-top box.
According to Ofcom, more than one in four of the UK's television sets are now connected to a Freeview box.
He looks down and finds that the electrical cord leads to the television now a dark, silent box lying on the floor at his feet.
The need to foray into the spaghetti factory behind your television is especially unfortunate because, when the box occasionally flakes out, one of the first things customer support will tell you to do is to reset it by unplugging it and plugging it again.
And then there's Sony Pictures Television, which sent out a Joan of Arcadia box that not only played the series' theme song upon opening, but also featured a live tree, which was prominent in the provided episode.
While it's technically always been possible to stream (using the 360's Media Center Extender technology), the new update gives the masses who aren't yet using a Media Center box a quick and easy way to stream video to the television.
Whatever the form of connection, television makers are doing away with a set-top box for dialling into the Internet.
Shortly after, small towns in Pennsylvania started bringing in television by wire, which Rigas realized would cost him box-office receipts.
Meanwhile, the Apple TV set-top box and widescreen iPod Touch have begun nibbling at the edges of the television market, long dominated by Japanese brands.
The typical American couch spud already has a number of "boxes" attached to his television set: A VCR, a cable-TV decoder box and perhaps a videogame console like a Sony PlayStation.
Given that the last time Mattel tried the Barbie robot army approach, a FOX producer discovered them and created the television series The Swan, Mattel's designers came up with the Juice Box.
In the future, we'll all be able to surf and shop on the Web via television-but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or in the TV set itself?
Dr Daly showed signs of strain in the witness box as attention moved to the removal of Mr Duddy from the car park and the famous television pictures of him leading the group carrying the slumped body of the youth were played to the hearing.
Replay Networks and TiVo both offer appliances that record television programs on command, saving them on a hard drive in the set-top box.
In the future, we'll be able to surf and shop on the web on television--but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or the set itself?
That box office number determines how much the studio can charge for each movie to be shown on cable and network television.
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