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Set top boxes poised to dethrone the PC in Xmas rush
News The boxes, which are similar to set-top boxes sold by Bush for £79.99 (inc VAT), will allow users to surf the Net on their television set, but unlike digital set-top boxes from companies like Sky, OnDigital and Freebox will not support digital...
[October 31, 2000, 10:31]
Dreamcast's next target: Set-top boxes
News Amid reports that Sega will stop selling Dreamcast as a standalone gaming console, the company is finalising plans to incorporate its technology into other devices such as next-generation set-top boxes.
[January 24, 2001, 8:20]
Adobe brings Flash to TVs, set-top boxes
News The company will on Monday announce the latest version of its Flash multimedia platform that will essentially put its technology in internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other digital home devices.
[April 20, 2009, 9:52]
BBC iPlayer heads to set-top boxes
News Having conquered the PC world with one million requests per day, the BBC's iPlayer could soon be coming to set-top boxes. Such a platform will mean the likes of BBC's iPlayer and ITV's newly rebranded ITV Player will be available through a web...
[December 12, 2008, 13:21]
News Burst: PowerChannel to give away two million set-top boxes
News Two million UK consumers will be given free set-top boxes to surf the Internet by PowerChannel over the next three years, in return for submitting details of their shopping habits, the company said Friday.
[October 30, 2000, 10:34]
Ntl puts broadband on set-top boxes
News Engineers have now found a way to work around the problem by running broadband services through the subscribers' existing set-top boxes. The boxes were supplied by Pace Micro and already have broadband cable-modems installed, ntl said.
[June 28, 2001, 17:06]
Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide
News Freebox hopes to start distributing boxes to UK households before Christmas 2000. 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...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
MIPS speeds broadband set-top boxes
News MIPS Technologies has given high-tech set-top boxes a boost with a new 64bit microprocessor design called MIPS64 5Kf, announced at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, California this week. The FPU, along with other optimisations, makes the...
[June 13, 2001, 14:02]
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]
Rockwell/Brooktree merger could drive set-top boxes
News My guess is that they will integrate video and communications into dedicated technology for set-top boxes. "I think Rockwell will bring a lot of money and credibility in blue-chip businesses," said Brett Butcher, managing director of Datapath Ltd.a...
[July 11, 1996, 10:03]
ONdigital joins war for 'free' set-top boxes
News Previously ONdigital subscribers could only get free set-top boxes when they bought goods worth £199. The move will be seen as a direct challenge to rival digital provider BSkyB, which announced free boxes from the beginning of June.
[May 25, 1999, 17:05]
US Report: C-Cube shows set-top chip
News Called the AViA@tv, the new product includes MPEG-2 decoding, robust graphics, two way networking and a processor on a single chip that is OpenCable compliant. Consumer device makers Pioneer and Pace have already adopted C-Cube's new AviA@tv...
[December 1, 1998, 5:04]
A Year Ago: COM One delivers set-top box
News Although COM One claims the device will be among the first set-top boxes in the UK, the firm admits that missing the Christmas market is a blow. French communications firm COM One today announced what will be one of one the first companies to...
[December 2, 1998, 6:42]
COM One delivers set-top box
News Although COM One claims the device will be among the first set-top boxes in the UK, the firm admits that missing the Christmas market is a blow. SurfTV Plus is based on Cyrix's MediaGX-133 processor and runs the QNX Unix variant.
[December 3, 1997, 16:53]
Roundup: Are PCs losing their grip on the Internet?
News Set top boxes poised to dethrone the PC in Xmas rush Tue, 31st Oct 2000 Set-top boxes could be the next step forward for unwired Brits but will it become a spam frenzy? Mon, 23rd Oct 2000 New set-top boxes will enable viewers to store entertainment...
[November 15, 2000, 15:17]
IBM puts Linux on TV
News IBM is launching the latest initiative to bring Linux into set-top boxes, working with MontaVista Software to bring its Hard Hat Linux to the PowerPC-based, single-chip Set-Top Box Controller. Early models include the TiVo digital video recorder...
[May 17, 2001, 7:33]
Satellite broadband from Freebox
News Freebox -- the firm that promised to tackle the digital divide by giving away free Net-enabled set-top boxes -- is rolling out a satellite broadband service. Armitage believes firms that choose to give away set-top boxes are caught in something of...
[November 3, 2000, 11:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When the ITV Digital liquidators told the million or so owners of set-top boxes that they had to send forty quid to keep them, the million or so owners expressed derision. In the end, Carlton-Granada's decision to give the ITV Digital liquidators...
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
Dataquest Predicts: Net eyeballs focus on TV, not PC
News The research group predicts digital set top boxes will be on par with PCs in the race for Internet eyeballs by 2005, with Net access becoming more common via TV in following years. As the Internet moves onto mobiles and digital set top boxes PC...
[June 8, 1999, 10:29]
Microsoft and Broadcom announce new TV box design
News Communications chipmaker Broadcom has developed a blueprint for set-top boxes that will use Microsoft's most advanced interactive TV software, the companies said on Monday. Microsoft and Broadcom hope that set-top boxes using the design will...
[June 12, 2001, 9:52]
