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Set-Top Box Client Software
White Papers The Client is the software on the set-top box (PC) that allows the user to search, browse, and access digital media. This paper first outlines the features of a set-top box, then, it discusses the applications running on the set-top box and their...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New Chip Powers Tiny Linux Set-top Box
News Current Freeview-style set-top boxes have already dispensed with the VCR-type form factor in favour of an alarm clock-sized box that manufacturers prefer to call a digital television adapter. Zarlink said that its current smallest reference design...
[November 27, 2002, 15:14]
German Set-Top Box Manufacturer Cuts Development By 10 Months With Embedded Solution
White Papers TeleGent, a German manufacturer of home entertainment devices, was developing a software infrastructure called Evolution 1 for a new set-top box system. The organisation needed an operating system for small-footprint devices that shipped with a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Digital Set-Top-Box Solution Based On Embedded Linux
White Papers A highly successful embedded digital set-top-box reference platform needed a new platform OS personality i.e. Embedded Linux. Bringing up embedded Linux personality meant enormous challenges in providing an architecture (arch) directory in Linux...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
COSTRON Company Limited Leverages Embedded Operating System Technologies To Develop A Full-Featured Set-Top Box
White Papers COSTRON examined several embedded operating systems and chose the feature rich Microsoft Windows CE .NET 4.2 platform to develop its latest CS 300 set-top box. COSTRON Company Limited is a leading developer and manufacturer of IP-enabled set-top...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Report: Motorola Plans Set-top Box
News Motorola is preparing to enter the digital television business, with a set-top box capable of handling bit-by-bit transmissions over the air, from satellite and through cable, according to parties close to the company.
[August 25, 1998, 6:37]
A Year Ago: COM One Delivers Set-top Box
News French communications firm COM One today announced what will be one of one the first companies to deliver a set-top box in the UK. Amodio said the box will carry a retail price of under £400 but added he expected most sales to come from projected...
[December 2, 1998, 6:42]
Sega Unveils PACE Set-top Box
News Sega has unveiled Wednesday the first picture of the set-top box it is jointly developing with British manufacturer PACE Micro Technology. The product, which has yet to be named, will incorporate Dreamcast architecture and will be 100 percent...
[February 14, 2001, 10:48]
Want To Build A Better Set-Top Box ?
White Papers The dynamic nature of Java is the most compelling reason to use Java in the design of a set-top box. This paper explains the reason behind the usage of Java in the designing of Set-Top-Box. Almost all Interactive Television standards chose Java as...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Designing 1394 In A Digital Set-top Box
White Papers The set-top box (STB) is fast becoming a multifunction device that may need to connect to a Digital VCR or to a PC. This article explains the generic STB architecture, the IEEE 1394 audio/ video layer, and other important design considerations.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ITV Digital Customers Get Set-top Box Deal
News Originally liquidator Grant Thornton had hoped to get £40 from customers who wished to keep hold of their set-top box, and asked those who didn't to return them -- but it has now conceded defeat in the face of the logistical nightmare involved in...
[January 20, 2003, 13:05]
IP Digital Set Top Box: Scalable Platform For Video-On Demand With TV-Out
White Papers The IP-Digital Set Top Box (IP-DSTB) enables the implementation of "triple-play" data, voice and video services in the home including the sharing of photos, music, data, voice and video with networked consumer electronics devices, entertainment...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Linux Powers Panasonic Broadband TV Set-top Box
News Panasonic has selected MontaVista Software to provide the operating system for its new Broadnow Internet-enabled television set-top box. The Broadnow box can receive ordinary TV signals as well as Internet data.
[April 16, 2003, 8:05]
Remote Software Update For Intel Digital Set Top Box BSP For Microsoft Windows CE 5.0
White Papers The recommendations contained in this whitepaper have been verified on Intel 854 and 830 Digital Set Top Box platforms for Microsoft Windows CE 5.0. The information contained in this whitepaper explains how to set up and configure a Microsoft...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sega To Develop Set-top Box With PACE
News Sega announced Monday that it will jointly develop a set-top box with British manufacturer PACE Micro Technology. No release date for the first "Dreambox" has been set, although PACE has announced that it plans to show it off to the public on both...
[January 29, 2001, 11:54]
Breaking Open The Set Top Box
White Papers This work is based in the idea of breaking open the set top box by physically separating the access network specific functions (for example demodulation and error correction) from the application specific functions (for example MPEG-2 video...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Comdex Fall: Cyrix Showcases Set-top Box
News The Media Center is a 2-in thick black pizza box-style case with 200MHz MediaGX processor, DVD player, TV and radio tuner, 3D audio, 56kbps modem, USB and IEEE.1394 FireWire ports, infra-red keyboard, microphone, full duplex speaker phone...
[November 19, 1997, 13:37]
French Firm To Offer Set-top Box
News Called Surf TV, the product line is expected to be ready for the Christmas market.
[November 28, 1997, 13:27]
COM One Delivers Set-top Box
News Amodio said the box will carry a retail price of under £400 but added he expected most sales to come from projected tie-ups with ISPs and other providers who will give away the product or sell it at a heavily discounted price.
[December 3, 1997, 16:53]
News Burst: Intel, Nokia To Develop Linux Set-top Box
News The Nokia set-top will be based on Intel's PC architecture and will use an x86-based processor, the Linux operating system, and AOL's open-source Mozilla browser. Nokia expects the first product to be introduced in the second half of 2000, and...
[October 13, 1999, 8:13]
