Advantage Point.(set-top box storage developments)

Television Asia, June, 2000 by Forrester, Chris

Ignoring the latest developments in set-top box storage could place broadcasters at a serious disadvantage, says Chris Forrester "Set-top boxes with built-in storage will be ubiquitous in five years," says David Robertson, director of business development at NDS, the News Corp-owned technology company well-known to digital broadcasters, many of which are using its compression equipment.

Dr Abe Peled, NDS chief executive, has likened improvements in set-top-box functionality as being digital's secret weapon. He may be right, especially if the rapid trend to include large amounts of hard-drive storage within a set-top box really takes off. And NDS believes it will. Robertson goes on to say that NDS receives scores of requests for proposals and...

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