SET-TOP BOX

Domain	Definition
Computing	Set-top box (STB) Any electronic device designed to produce output on a conventional televesion set (on top of which it nominally sits) and connected to some other communications channels such as telephone, ISDN, optical fibre or cable. The STB usually runs software to allow the user to interact with the programmes shown on the television in some way. Online Media are one STB manufacturer. (1997-05-16). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Set-top box

The term set-top box describes a device that connects to your television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content on your screen. The signal source might be a satellite dish, a cable (see cable television), a phone line, a DSL connection or maybe even an ordinary UHF/VHF antenna.

Content, in this context, could mean any or all of video, audio, internet pages, interactive games, or other possibilities.

Commercial Usage: SET-TOP BOX

Domain	Title
High Tech	Philips WVH111 AOLTV Internet Television Set-Top Box (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: SET-TOP BOX

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Li notes that the market of set-top box is divided by the history of the two groups. (references)
		In order to speed up the development the set-top box market, several impediments must be overcome. (references)
		Set-top box access provide yet another piece in the puzzle of bringing the Internet to the Chinese masses. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: SET-TOP BOX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-o-o-p-s-t-t-x"
	-2 letters: postbox.
	-3 letters: obtest, pottos, sexpot.
	-4 letters: besot, boost, boots, botts, boxes, estop, expos, oboes, ottos, pesto, petto, poets, potto, poxes, sexto, stoop, stope, stopt, texts, toots, topes, topos, totes.
	-5 letters: best, bets, boos, boot, bops, bots, bott, epos, expo, obes, oboe, oops, oots, opes, opts, otto, oxes, peso, pest, pets, poet, pose, post, pots.
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