Q: Many television programs indicate they are “closed captioned” for the hearing impaired. What must one do to receive this service? A: You need a closed caption decoder, which looks like a cable box ...

Conexant Systems announced that its CX2417x family of HDTV set-top box (STB) broadcast decoders has been certified to support Dolby Digital Plus audio coding technology. This advanced technology ...

Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics has released a low-cost set-top-box (STB) decoder chip aimed at standard-definition (SD) terrestrial, cable, satellite and Internet Protocol (IP) TV ...

Even before the great COFDM vs. 8-VSB modulation system debate momentarily clouded the television transition, integrated circuit developers and consumer electronics companies were hard at work on more ...

Geneva—STMicroelectronics is shipping engineering samples of its latest OMEGA device, the QAMi5107, which is an SoC for digital cable TV set-top boxes that combines a digital signal demodulator with ...

Another victim of Canal+’s takeover of MultiChoice appears to be the shelving of what MultiChoice planned to be its ...

Trust Nigerian Twitter to have already started making fun of how the box looks. As the guys at Telcoms Satellite Limited have decided to keep Nigerians in suspense like a good Telemundo series episode ...

STAR TV has left cable operators and viewers confused with an advertisement offering decoder boxes that will enable viewers to access its STAR Plus channel. The advertisement, which highlights the ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif --Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home, today announced that its CX2417X family of ...