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A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, [1] is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into ...
On July 8, 2006, DirecTV announced an upgrade to version 6.3 of the TiVo software for the HR10-250, the first major upgrade since this unit was released. [5] This upgrade includes features such as program grouping (folders), a much faster on-screen guide, and new sorting features.
'Red Button' on a Bush TV remote control. The Red Button is a push-button on the remote control for certain digital television set top boxes in the UK, Australia, Belgium, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and by DirecTV and Comcast in the United States. It is for interactive television services [1] such as BBC Red Button and Astro (Malaysia).
The box can be accessed with terminal emulation protocol telnet, ssh, or via FTP. The OpenWebif module implements a web server that allows control of the box from a PC using a web browser. The box can act as a streaming server, streaming material received by its tuners or direct from its hard drive or any mounted device available to it.
A digital TV converter box. A digital television adapter (DTA), commonly known as a converter box or decoder box, is a television tuner that receives a digital television (DTV) transmission, and converts the digital signal into an analog signal that can be received and displayed on an analog television set.
Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed to install it.
HTPC and PVR software for Linux, with a built-in UPnP AV MediaServer. ReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA) open source: is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. It is developed by a Netgear employee for the ReadyNAS product line. Rygel: open-source: media server part of the GNOME ...
Geniatech makes a series of digital video recording devices called EyeTV. The software supplied with each device is also called EyeTV, and is available separately for use on compatible third-party tuners from manufacturers such as Pinnacle, TerraTec, and Hauppauge. SageTV provided DVR software for the Mac but no longer sells it. [26]