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).
One of those TiVo-like devices was the set top box supplied to users of the Dish satellite system.
Samsung also announced that it would make a Google TV set and a set-top box, both of which can run Adobe's software but not Hulu's.
"If you want any of these advanced services, you need some sort of set-top box, which people basically perceive as free, " says Robert Van Orden, a vice president at Scientific-Atlanta.
Cisco Systems yesterday denied any interest in getting rid of its set-top box business.
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All DISH customers can access On Demand content associated with their programming package regardless of their set-top box model.
Cisco also announced earlier today an agreement for sale of its set-top box manufacturing facility in Juarez, Mexico, to Foxconn Technology Group.
Broadcom registered a 2.6% sequential increase in revenue from the broadband business, primarily on account of higher sales of its set-top box platforms.
So lately it seems to be veering toward developing a set-top box, a sort of souped-up Apple TV device, that could be used with existing TVs.
Users will be able to watch the Freewire service on their PC, laptop or Apple Mac as well as through televisions with the help of a set-top box.
About three months after it started selling a new version of the set-top box last year, Apple said it had sold more than a million but hasn't provided sales figures since.
In addition to the two smartphone models, Amazon is also said to be working on a device for streaming music and a set-top box, the latter of which was also reported by Bloomberg BusinessWeek last month.
And so in the case of the set-top box you typically would store the video back on the server, either the Media Center server in the home, or the your video provider server back at the head-end.
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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As I noted earlier, Apple (AAPL) this morning said that this week it will top the 1 million unit mark for sales of its new generation Apple TV set-top box.
Speculations of a Xiaomi set-top box have been swirling around China for some time.
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So you'll have a set-top box which you can think of as kind of the simplest device.
As many on the Street have long expected, Google is finally getting rid of the Motorola set-top box business.
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Almost any existing analogue TV, even a black and white one, can be converted with the addition of a digital set-top box.
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.
Even so, device makers are hard at work striking content deals to help them insert themselves--in the form of yet another set-top box--into your living room.
On televisions, this is achieved via a small set-top box -- a prototype of which approaches the size and noise level of a mini-fridge -- that plugs into the video source and the TV and converts the video in real-time with virtually no latency.
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.
PopBox is the first over-the-top set-top box to support the stereoscopic RealD Format for the delivery and display of high-quality 3D content.
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Huawei has a long-running relationship with TalkTalk in the UK. The Ascend G 330 is the latest Huawei-branded product to be launched by TalkTalk, following on the heels of Huawei's Y 201 smartphone, which launched this week, and its innovative YouView set-top box, which TalkTalk is currently installing at a rate of more than 1, 000 per day.
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"CableLabs is moving too slowly, " says Tony Aoki, the director of Sony's set-top-box division.
By the end of the first quarter, Apple is expected to release the next iteration of its Apple TV set-top box.
Margolis was referring to the design of the new Apple TV set top box that was released alongside the new iPad earlier this month.
Virgin Media in the U.K. is using TiVo's set-top box and software as the cornerstone of its advanced TV rollout to its 4 million subscribers.
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.
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