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The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. Originally only for analog TV signals, set-top boxes have become widely used for digital services that offer an on-screen program guide. Digital set-top boxes that provide high-definition TV (HDTV) are the latest version.
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Compared with the first quarter of this year, sales of satellite and IP set-top boxes grew 16 percent and 31 percent, respectively. Advanced IPVideo Set-Top Boxes sales volumes are accelerating Half of the year-over-year growth in the set-top box market came from sales of cable boxes, which growth was partly a result of cable operators upgrading their set-tops from proprietary security and conditional access set-top boxes to CableCARD-based set-tops in order to meet the FCC mandate that customers be able to access cable services via third-party devices by July 1, 2007," commented Greg Collins, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. |
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