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ASUS O!Play TV Pro Set Top Box Released

Since ASUS wants to be known as a supplier of multimedia devices in addition to PCs and computer-related products, the company has announced the O!Play TV Pro. This is a set-top box, STB for short, which intends to turn any HDTV (high-definition TV) into a smart TV, of sorts. The built-in DVB-T digital tuner is th...

10 February 2012
13:41 GMT

Comcast’s Parker Set Top Box Reaches the FCC

By now, pretty much everybody known that Comcast plans to start experimenting with web-connected set top boxes, but until recently these devices were unveiled by a shroud of mystery.All this changed however just a short while ago when the FCC’s hallways welcomed ‘Parker’, the outfit’s first, a...

19 January 2012
10:25 GMT

Apple to Begin 37-inch iTV Production in Q1 2012 - Taiwan Chatter

A report from the Far East says Apple’s supply chain is gearing up to ship the ‘materials’ needed for the next generation television product with screen sizes ranging between 32- and 37-inches. The usual industry sources quoted by Taiwan’s trade publication Digitimes say Apple has given the o...

27 December 2011
07:52 GMT

LG Lets One Turn Any TV into a Smart TV with Upgrader ST600

It looks like LG is doing more than releasing new mobile phones, tablets and 3D TVs, as one of its most recent revelations deals with a certain set-top box capable of doing everything its name implies.Nowadays, there seems to be a visible transition towards so-called smart TV solutions, namely TVs, or accessories, t...

29 March 2011
09:39 GMT

Sony Remains Optimistic About Google TV

Although Google TV encountered all sort of setbacks since its introduction, Sony, one of the four companies involved in its development, remains upbeat about the platform, a senior executive recently stating that Google TV sales are “in line with expectations.” The Google TV platform was officially lau...

21 December 2010
04:28 GMT

Free Intros the 4-in-1 Freebox v6 Revolution Set-top Box

For the last couple of years, cable operators have tried to bundle more services than ever in their set-top boxes, but few of them actually managed to do so, France's Free ISP being one of the success stories if we are to take a look at their Freebox v6 Revolution STB that comes stuffed full of features. In c...

14 December 2010
10:09 GMT

New Set-Top Box from Oregan Networks Incoming

Coming to supply end-users with a set-top box capable of streaming all sorts of web videos and music, Oregan Networks has just announced the impending availability of the Onyx STB, whose feature set includes more than just TV service.Set-top boxes have been selling in droves, especially now that their array of capab...

20 September 2010
09:20 GMT

SanDisk and NDS Make SSDs Cheap Enough for STBs

After a long time when solid state drives were arguably too expensive for most applications, compared to HDDs, SanDisk and NDS claim that, by combining the SanDisk P4 SSDs with the latter's MediaHighway STB software, a new range of low-cost set-top boxes with DVR functionality can be created.According to the tw...

9 September 2010
05:41 GMT

Analysts Foresee Popularity Rise for Web-to-TV Set-Top Boxes

Internet has begun to be integrated into many types of electronics, and set-top boxes have definitely evolved into hybrids by adopting such connectivity, to the point where analysts are actually predicting that these devices, as they bring a new set of services to TVs, will grow in popularity very quickly.The Intern...

14 August 2010
07:14 GMT

New Microsoft STB President Points to Technology in Tough Economic Times

At the start of 2009, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced officially that Bob Muglia was promoted to the role of President of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB) from the position of senior vice president of that business group. Head of STB and responsible for no less than US$13 bi...

7 January 2009
07:26 GMT


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