"set top" articles

Monday's ruling from the 2nd Court of Appeals found that Cablevision's Remote Storage DVR (RS-DVR) service was not in violation of copyright law, overturning a March 2007 ruling. The RS-DVR feature allows subscribers to have DVR-like functionality without a set-top box, as Cablevision itself hosted the storage. I had commented on the original ruling in this blog post last year. While Cablevision may be free to now restart the RS-DVR services, I wonder how much they'll actually do...

After years of discussion, the consumer electronics industry and the cable industry seem to have reached a meeting of the minds. Sony and six major cable companies (Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. and Bright House Networks) have come to terms about how to incorporate cable cards and cable’s technology into televisions, making set top boxes a thing of the past. Previously cable cards provided...

The folks at NXP Semiconductors saw my blog from the other day and wanted to make sure that I was aware that they were powering the streaming functionality of the set-top box. The company has a reference design called the Nexperia Network Media Player. By the way, I found some awesome Flickr photos of some cakes that were created for the launch celebration for the Roku player. Talk about some great industrial design!