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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Xilinx At Work In Set-Top Boxes
White Papers This White Paper gives an overview of different set-top box technologies and how Xilinx high volume programmable devices can be used to implement complex system level glue in a variety of set-top box designs.
[January 29, 2004, 23:00]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 20/01/03When 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...
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
VIA Goes Embedded With Motherboard Division
News VIA Technologies is hoping to exploit the vast market for embedded devices like digital video recorders and set-top Internet boxes with its new motherboard division, which was announced at the beginning of this week.
[October 18, 2001, 15:31]
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]
Pace Considers US Listing
News Pace Micro Technology (quote: PIC), the UK manufacturer of set-top boxes for digital television, is considering listing its shares in US markets as the company's business expands there. In a recent breakthrough, Pace won a contract to supply at...
[January 11, 2000, 11:33]
US Report: HDTV Will Bow To The Computer
News Announcements include specialised chips that allow digital TV signals and interactive content to be picked up on personal computers and set-top boxes. Set-top boxes based on the platform could display email, electronic program guides, Java-based...
[November 10, 1998, 8:52]
