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Comcast has since introduced the XiD set-top box with the same form factor as the original DTA design but adds an HDMI output and access to X1 DVRs and channels via its digital cable and IP tuning abilities. [5] In 2012, an HD-DTA was launched adding an HDMI connection and RF remote support to the original DTA design.
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 ...
Xfinity Voice (formerly Comcast Digital Voice) is a Voice Over IP cable telephony service that was launched in 2005 in some markets, [75] and to all of Comcast's markets in 2006. Comcast's older service, Comcast Digital Phone, continued to offer service for a brief period, until Comcast shut it down around in late 2007. [ 76 ]
The General Instrument/Motorola DCT2000 is a cable box used for watching TV by way of digital cable. These set-top boxes were popular in the late 1990s up until the mid to late 2000s, when the adoption of more sophisticated successors, namely those set-tops with the ability to record live programming began.
Xumo: The remote. The Xumo remote is a much more simplified version of the Spectrum cable box remote you might be accustomed to. For instance, you won’t see buttons for “record” or “last ...
An addressable cable box is one that can be controlled by the local cable company. Addressability is the process by which (optionally encrypted) messages are sent from the cable provider for a particular cable box via the cable signal. The cable company can "address" a particular customer's cable box to command it to activate or deactivate the ...
Middleware for pay-TV operators, deployed by large telecoms and cable operators such as BT and Telefónica on hybrid STBs. Plex Closed-source cross-platform media center with proprietary streaming functionality to numerous devices.
Many satellite, cable and IPTV companies are incorporating digital video recording functions into their set-top box, such as with DirecTiVo, DISHPlayer/DishDVR, Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8xxx from Time Warner, Total Home DVR from AT&T U-verse, Motorola DCT6412 from Comcast and others, Moxi Media Center by Digeo (available through Charter ...