About 13 million digital set-top boxes will be sold in North and South America this year.
Worldwide, sales of digital set-top boxes are expected to nearly triple in four years, to 96 million.
Over the next five years, sales of digital set-top boxes are expected to explode.
The other major factor pushing the sales of digital set-top boxes is good old government regulation.
Of those three, currently only the PlayStation is truly a digital set-top box.
Almost any existing analogue TV, even a black and white one, can be converted with the addition of a digital set-top box.
Since those systems were designed, the Internet has taken off, and the cable companies now deploying digital set-top boxes are looking for Internet-compatible systems.
Pace is the world's third largest supplier of digital set-top boxes.
Without a broadcast flag in place, content providers might decide not to release new programming in digital format, thus reducing consumer demand for Thomsons' digital set-top boxes, according to Arland.
PayWizard supports transactions made on multiple devices -- including online, iPads and other tablets, smart phones, connected TVs and digital set-top boxes -- and features a unique, web-based management dashboard that provides detailed real-time activity reports as well as valuable, actionable marketing information on viewer behaviour.
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Sony made its first attempt at the market for interactive TV in late 1999, when it signed a deal to provide three million digital set-top boxes to Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ) subscribers in the New York City area.
The company is also in over 30% of digital TV and set top boxes and an increasing presence in automotive and data storage.
Oh we just love the echo chamber that is the internet these days -- some genius reads about something as harmless as a integrated security waver for cheap digital SD set-top-boxes and automatically predicts the end of clear QAM as we know it.
Many viewers will have to retune digital TVs or set-top boxes as some channels have moved to new frequencies.
Those already using digital TVs or set-top boxes will have to re-tune.
Patchy reception in many areas has deterred subscribers, while frequent technical glitches in ITV Digital's set-top boxes has led many others to disconnect.
Not only does the OS bring in billions in profits, it provides users with a familiar interface, whether it is on their PC, personal digital assistant, set-top box, Tablet PC or cell phone.
The C and E Series (as well as the G Series for embedded applications like digital signage, set-top boxes, and game consoles and the Z Series, a 6 watt version aimed at passively cooled, sealed applications like tablets) are based on the same 75 square millimeter Brazos die.
Products for consumer electronics include various HDDs designed for digital video recorders, set-top boxes, karaoke machines, printers and gaming consoles.
And about 40% more will be able to view the digital signal through a digital cable or satellite set-top box on an analog TV they already own.
But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
That should unleash some healthy competition: Within a few years it may not be uncommon to buy a set-top digital box that can not only decode cable transmissions, but is also a web browser, a game machine and a DVD player.
One of the first Digital DNA products is a set- top box made by Motorola.
It claims it was the first company to mass produce digital TVs (without the set-top box), in 1998.
The industry believes that the Internet will give consumers one more reason to pay for a digital pipeline and a clever set-top box.
Online sales of movies and music are booming, fueled by Apple's lineup of iPod digital media players, the AppleTV set top box, and now, the iPhone.
"Today's action preserves the commission's decision to protect consumers and prevents cable companies from either choosing to cut off signals of must-carry broadcast stations after the digital conversion, or requiring customers to purchase higher-priced packages with set-top boxes to receive the same analog channels in digital, " said Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC, in a statement.
The software will be used in non-PC devices like TV set-top boxes, digital cameras and DVD players.
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