Set-top-box

Set-top-box • The term set-top-box describes a device that connects to a television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content then displayed on the screen. • The signal source might be an Ethernet cable, a satellite dish, a coaxial cable, a telephone line (including DSL connections), or an ordinary UHF aerial.

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• Content, in this context, could mean any or all of video, audio, Internet webpages, interactive games, or other possibilities. • Often STB does have 2 tuners. This enables for example dual recording or recording one programme and watching another. • Working with PC happens with USB connection. • Recording capacity: If the hard disk capacity is for example 250 GB, and the stream is 4 Mbits/sec, we can record …. hours.

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