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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
He also didn't consider how long it would take for viewers to trade in their analog set-top boxes for the digital devices needed.
Many of Sky's set-top boxes have a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) port on the back that can link to a high-speed net service.
The idea is to embed a sliver of Java software in the chip brains of devices such as printers, digital cameras, mobile telephones and television set-top boxes.
At the top of the line, lies the Snapdragon S4 Prime, which is targeted at high-performance applications, particularly non-mobile uses like browsing and connectivity for smart TVs, set-top boxes, and digital media adapters.
You know how people have been telling TiVo how the only way they're going to survive would be to convince some a cable company to license their digital video recorder software for use on set-top boxes?
Providing the set-top boxes needed to process digital signals for showing on normal televisions, however, will be costly.
Local television stations are beginning to go digital, too, and people will need set-top boxes to receive their signals.
The cost of set-top boxes needed to receive digital transmissions meant it would be prohibitively expensive for most Kenyans, Cofek argued.
BT, Midland Bank and Matsushita which will offer interactive services and provide a retail subsidy for the set-top boxes needed to decrypt digital signals.
Digital video has moved beyond DVDs and cable set-top boxes to big cinema screens, small screens like the new iPod's and over the Web in the form of Internet-downloaded movies and TV shows.
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