Rush Hour, Chan's new action-comedy-thriller, set box office records in the U.S. and is about to do the same across Asia.
The Avengers -a movie about superheroes- set box office records this weekend.
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Just weeks after Spidey and Shrek set box office records for Sony and DreamWorks, the Walt Disney Co. gets its shot at the title tonight when it rolls out Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third installment in the swashbuckling series.
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).
This, in the end, may be the reason Google is letting go (and could also signal that Cisco will soon sell its own TV set top box unit) as Asian competitors may be turning set top boxes into commodities.
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There are plans to roll out the HD streams to devices such as the Virgin Set Top Box and PlayStation 3, but no date has yet been set.
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One of those TiVo-like devices was the set top box supplied to users of the Dish satellite system.
Disney set a box office record with Toy Story 3, which became the highest grossing animated movie ever.
The next step would be for Forstall to push iOS onto the next generation Apple TV set top box.
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Intel is not only producing a TV set top box, it plans to provide streaming content over the internet.
The YouView set top box integrates content delivered by broadband and television aerial.
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For the Roku user base, they consider the Roku set top box to be their primary choice for watching television.
He also predicted Apple will add movie rentals to its iTunes service and update its Apple TV set top box offering.
In 2011, Logitech announced that it experienced more returns than sales for its Google TV-based set top box, the Logitech Revue.
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Bloomberg reported Tuesday Apple will unveil a new set top box Wednesday that will let users tap into content from Netflix.
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Margolis was referring to the design of the new Apple TV set top box that was released alongside the new iPad earlier this month.
Ballmer will reportedly offer a preview of a new Microsoft set top box, a category the the company has attacked several times, with mixed results.
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.
Media center software, a streaming set top box and a TV-tuning USB dongle -- Boxee already has a pretty decent amount on its plate.
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Even though Wal-Mart has become a major retailer of Apple products, it has chosen not to go with Apple TV as its primary set top box offering.
The self-install package uses wires to link set top box with the computers in customers' home, but eventually Telewest said it will provide wireless connectors to make installation even easier.
With the supplied Hauppauge WinTV v7.2 application, the HD PVR 2 can be programmed to change the channels on the set top box using the IR blaster at a designated time.
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The recent speculation that Apple will move into the set top box business in partnership with one or more of the cable operators sounds like a logical way around this impasse.
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Now the speculation has died down and it is widely believed that current Apple TV, which is a set top box, will be the cornerstone of any Apple TV initiative in the future.
Cisco will lay off 4, 400 employees, another 2, 100 workers opted for voluntary retirement packages, finally Cisco will shed an additional 5, 000 jobs as part of a deal to sell a Juarez, Mexico set top box factory.
In a world where TV is the next frontier, Google had two offerings: Google TV and, after the acquisition of Motorola, one of the largest set top box manufacturers in the world with the Motorola Home business.
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Boxee TV is a set top box with a built in antennae to capture over-the-air TV signals as well as the ability to stream video from the internet such as from Netflix and YouTube, which is owned by Google.
Rather than focusing on geeky products for techies -- such as the Xserver and Mac Pro -- Del Prete says he's betting Steve Jobs will show off consumer-friendly products such as a freshened iPhone and a new version of the Apple TV set top box next week.
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