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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (1692)4/14/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver  Read Replies (1) of 2025
 
I found this note about IBM entering the set-top box market. Not sure what it means except that these devices are looking more and more like computers.

I suppose it makes sense to have a "box" on top of the set, but really where we seeing TVs with these things built into them? Why shouldn't TV be a PC? Why shouldn't TVs come with a slot for interface cards which is more less what I perceive a set-top box to be.

With all of this computing power for Internet access and so on, why would we be satisfied with a set-top box? Don't we need control devices like remote mouses and keyboards? Do we need a high-resolution screen? Sure seems like it would be cheaper in the long run if more function were designed into the TV right from the start.

Regards, Mark

IBM takes wraps off set-top box chip
IBM said today that it has reduced much of a digital television set-top-box (STB) components onto a single chip. The chip combines a 401 PowerPC engine, MPEG audio and video decode systems, on-board caches, an on-chip memory and numerous peripheral units such as IEEE 1284, I2C interface and smart card interface -- in total, more than 30 cores from IBM's ASIC core library. IBM's single-chip set-top-box controller supports its emphasis on 'pervasive computing'; where computing power and Internet access are being designed into a wide range of business and consumer devices. The digital set-top box integrated controllers are sampling now, with production volume planned in July 1999. The integrated controllers are referred to as: IBM39 STB01000 PBB 22C (MPEG audio) and IBM39 STB01010 PBB 22C (Dolby Digital audio). top

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