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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]
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]
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...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
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]
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...
[June 2, 2006, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Acorn to show set-top box at CeBit
News Currently under evaluation in Europe, the US and Asia, the STB22 comes with ATM25 interface (or Ethernet), MPEG-2 decoder, integral Web browser and Java support.
[March 11, 1997, 14:36]
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]
Sun buys Diba to attack set-top box market
News Seed added that he expects the momentum for set-top boxes to quickly gather. There's a huge pent-up demand for people to get on the Web and have e-mail and we expect to see set-top boxes based on our architecture available in the UK before Christmas.
[July 31, 1997, 16:21]
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]
Nokia and Intel to produce TV set-top box
News A day after the Murdoch camp delivered the Open interactive TV experience, Intel and Nokia signed a deal Tuesday to provide integrated digital TV and Internet set-top boxes. The Nokia-branded set-top boxes will allow users to watch TV and access...
[October 13, 1999, 15:03]
Motorola picks Lineo for set-top box
News Lineo's version of Linux will be an option for upcoming set-top boxes from Motorola, and the company announced a product to ease the legal complexities of mixing open-source and proprietary software. Motorola, an investor in Lineo, will include...
[August 29, 2001, 10:44]
ONdigital joins war for 'free' set-top boxes
Talkback i was told that ondigital had gone bust years ago isent back ther box and never got any money back over £169 was owed to me and now thay join war
[October 1, 2005, 22:41]
Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide
News A UK company claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television channels and the Internet. The company -- dubbed Freebox -- plans to make money from...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
BBC iPlayer heads to set-top boxes
News Such a platform will mean the likes of BBC's iPlayer and ITV's newly rebranded ITV Player will be available through a web-connected set-top box without the need for a PC. Having conquered the PC world with one million requests per day, the BBC's...
[December 12, 2008, 13:21]
