Cable Set Top Boxes

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  TRAI Recommends Making Set-Top Box Interoperability Compulsory

  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Saturday recommended that all DTH and cable set-top-boxes (STBs) provided to the customers must support interoperability and urged the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to make it mandatory by introducing the requisite provisions.

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  Permit Changing TV Operators Without Buying New Set-Top Box: Telecom Body

  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Saturday recommended that all DTH and cable set-top-boxes (STBs) provided to the customers must support interoperability and urged the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to make it mandatory by introducing the requisite provisions.

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  Now, Tamil Nadu Government Distributes Free Set Top Boxes

  The Tamil Nadu government today launched the distribution of free Set Top Boxes to subscribers of the state-run cable TV corporation, touted as first of its kind initiative in the country.

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  Cut-Off Date For Phase IV Of Cable TV Digitisation Extended

  The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has decided to extend the cut-off date for Phase IV of Cable TV Digitization to 31st March, 2017.

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  Third-Party Cable Boxes Won't Be Allowed to Spy on You (Too Much), US Regulators Say

  The proposed privacy rules would affect all firms who are looking to build alternatives to the traditional set-top box.

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  Bharti to Reportedly Start Making Set-Top Boxes in India

  Foreign STB makers almost wiped out domestic players during phase 1 and 2 of cable TV digitalisation with around 95 percent market share.

• Prakash Javadekar for India-Made Set Top Boxes in Digitisation Drive

  Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar today called upon Indian manufacturers to produce set top boxes to meet the growing demand created by the cable TV digitisation drive, and sought their suggestions to take the indigenisation process forward.

• Lakhs of TVs fall silent in Uttar Pradesh

  Over 7.50 lakh cable TV sets went blank in seven major cities of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, a day after the deadline to get set top boxes installed expired.

• Budget 2013: Set-top boxes to cost more, DTH operators unhappy

  Watching cable and satellite TV may turn expensive with the government proposing to double import duty on set top boxes (STBs) to 10 per cent but domestic manufacturers have welcomed the move.

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  Intel announces plans to launch Internet-enabled set-top box

  Intel plans to offer consumers smaller bundles of content than those currently offered by cable operators.

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  Coming soon: Cable TV boxes that show ads based on your activities

  A new set-top box technology that can observe what's going on in the room and show viewers advertisements based on what it detects.

• Homes in Kolkata continue to receive signals without set-top boxes

  As the digitisation deadline ending at midnight on Wednesday, many cable homes in Kolkata continued receiving signals without installing the government mandated set-top boxes (STB), apparently because of an understanding between the West Bengal government and multi-system operators (MSOs).

• Cable digitisation deadline ends, hundreds of TV screens go blank

  Television sets without set top boxes (STBs) in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended this midnight.

• Govt mulling steps for easy availability of set top boxes

  Government is planning to take several steps to ensure that Set Top Boxes are easily available.