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Technology Stocks : HDTV: Television of the future here now
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To: Ron who started this subject9/8/2003 8:05:58 AM
From: cordob  Read Replies (2) of 152
 
Good article about settop boxes:

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The set-top tightrope trauma

Just when suppliers of embedded processors for set-top boxes thought it was safe to build one-chip solutions, the question of how to juggle the integration of new features gets complicated again

By Robert Poe, illustration by Dave Cutler -- Electronic Business, 9/1/2003

first piece, this article is quite long and interesting:
It's decision time all over again for makers of chips for set-top boxes (STBs), which serve as the junction between cable or satellite television networks and TV sets. Over the past few years, the industry, which dates back to the mid-1990s, reached a significant milestone: Putting all the functions of STBs on a single chip became commercially and technically viable.

That set the stage for a market takeoff, with prices coming down and volumes rising. It also laid the groundwork for an explosion of possible new uses for such chips and boxes, particularly with the growth of high-definition television (HDTV), an explosion that may launch a second cycle of integration. It would mean a great opportunity for chip suppliers but also a whole set of decisions.

At least prices are down and volume is climbing. But a cloudy economic climate has dampened prospects for the innovative and lucrative new services TV operators expected to sell and thus for the boxes that would provide them.....

All the best
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