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.
Cable companies, racing to keep up, are installing a TiVo-like disk into their set-top boxes.
Dragon TV is Nuance's voice and language understanding platform for set-top boxes and connected TV devices.
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Narayen notes that Adobe works happily with some 70 makers of phones, tablets and set-top boxes.
And it introduced another aimed at set top boxes that blend the Internet with television.
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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.
For example, there are industry standards for measuring energy usage in TVs and cable set-top boxes.
The same could eventually happen to set-top boxes, like Roku, if Smart TV takes over.
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Set-top boxes will be on display from industry leaders such as General Instrument and Scientific-Atlanta.
He is staying plenty busy pressing Microsoft beyond PCs into television set-top boxes, games, cell phones.
CNN.com, say, showing on their web-enabled set-top boxes, the channel can be distributed in new ways.
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The software will be used in non-PC devices like TV set-top boxes, digital cameras and DVD players.
Basically home gateway enables full premium of full pay TV and VOD content without any set-top boxes.
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Interactive advertising will be available in 25 million set-top boxes across the U.S. by year-end, says he.
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But Baker thinks the CES buzz will be around two smaller companies with limited function set-top boxes.
The problem is the other half, Motorola Mobility, a maker of mobile phones and TV set-top boxes.
It will connect to SonicBlue's ReplayTV set-top boxes, which can record TV programming to a hard drive.
Amazon streaming has already made its way to the living room in a number of third-party set-top boxes.
The newest of these set-top boxes can store the equivalent of 30 feature-length films, a few even more.
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Comcast added 341, 000 new digital subscribers and installed more than 200, 000 HDTV set-top boxes in the same quarter.
Providing the set-top boxes needed to process digital signals for showing on normal televisions, however, will be costly.
The market for set-top boxes has previously proven a tough one to crack, for both Microsoft and Sony.
At the moment, for example, set-top boxes for televisions need separate circuits to handle cable and satellite feeds.
That plant has a major contract with Virgin Media to produce set-top boxes.
Only now are recording abilities beginning to show up in cable set-top boxes.
But as well as buying digtal TVs or set-top boxes, viewers would eventually need new video recorders as well.
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