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.
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 Diamonds processed credit card orders in their 8-year-old daughter's room and packed boxes in their 11-year-old son's room.
March 15, 2005 - TiVo cuts a deal to put their software on Comcast's DVR set-top boxes.
It will connect to SonicBlue's ReplayTV set-top boxes, which can record TV programming to a hard drive.
Chambers insisted the overall video business was "gaining momentum, " yet sales of Cisco's TV set-top boxes were off 29% from a year before.
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
But while Sony's and Microsoft's boxes will eventually offer expensive high-definition disc players and complex processors, Nintendo's new machine will take a different tack, says Perrin Kaplan , vice president of marketing and corporate affairs for Nintendo of America.
Interactive advertising will be available in 25 million set-top boxes across the U.S. by year-end, says he.
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We posses yards of coax for TV boxes, s-video cables for higher definition TV, multi-colored component cords for highest definition TV and HDMI cables for ultra high definition video and audio, all in one.
Now OS X is at the heart of Jobs' plan to eat up market share in the computer business--and extend Apple's reach deep into everything from set-top boxes to mobile phones.
All is at a delicate equilibrium, until the owner feels compelled to give in to a firmly worded request from the retailer for an additional discount, or a demand to air-freight, at manufacturer's expense, some boxes of shirts that suffered a two-week production delay and now won't be accepted by the retailer if they're any later than they already are.
On a related note, if you weren't yet sold on Google TV, a breath of fresh AIR might help -- Adobe told us it's presently pondering the correct time to add the cross-platform runtimes on Google's video streaming boxes as well.
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These are shown in the car park 14 floors below street level, accessible only by lift, as if buried in Mayfair's subconscious, and lit by five wall-size light boxes showing an enlarged detail of horses legs, taken from Piero della Francesca's Arezzo Fresco Cycle.
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It is swallowing Motorola Mobility whole, including the handset business, which has lately focused mostly on selling Android phones, and one of the two major U.S. players in cable set-top boxes.
Microsoft's scaled-down OS, Windows CE, is already appearing in cable boxes, and Microsoft is positioning it to create other appliances with attitude -- let's call them active appliances.
Pace is the world's third largest supplier of digital set-top boxes.
Other pieces include white ceramic dishes stamped with the ship's red "White Star Line" logo and leather handbags that some of the ship's pursers stuffed with money from safe-deposit boxes.
Dragon TV is Nuance's voice and language understanding platform for set-top boxes and connected TV devices.
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Solectron (nyse: SLR - news - people ), a contract manufacturer, has moved production of more complex products like high-end servers and set-top boxes from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years.
"Bennett's play feels less like a class comedy than an old man's rage against the sterility of today's cautious, over-organised society, where all boxes must be computer-ticked, and all human spirit and oddity processed away, " said Ismene Brown in her review for The Arts Desk.
Unlike other independent makers of set-top boxes that have simply licensed security technology from Motorola or Scientific-Atlanta, Sony's box goes around the duopoly.
Facebook, however, takes the view that the information customers necessarily divulge in the course of using Facebook becomes Facebook's property to use as Facebook sees fit -- unless of course the customer affirmatively opts out by ticking the correct boxes in Facebook's notoriously confusing and repeatedly changing privacy settings.
He is also meeting the city's famed dabbawallas, who carry lunch boxes to office-goers.
Upward of 36 million prepackaged heart-shaped boxes will be sold this Valentine's Day, making it the most popular gift of the holiday, according to the National Confectioners Association.
But what really checks all the right boxes for many of the world's ultra-rich is Singapore's obsession with order, predictability and control, all of which give comfort to individuals whose fortunes have recently gone down the drain in many parts of the world.
Today's microprocessors and memory chips depend on keeping electrons in tiny boxes--microscopic Leyden jars.
But after Monday's ruling, Lebowitz says those 16-ounce cups will remain in their boxes.
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Mr. Michelson works in several mediums light boxes (showing photographs of his great-grandfather's farmland), a video of the Hudson River shoreline, models of log cabins.
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