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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