Digital set top boxes-an overview and a view

Summary form only given, as follows. The author presents the current state of technology and affairs with digital set top boxes, where in his view they are going, and how he sees set top boxes changing their form to become set top platforms. In this way the set top will continuously provide for many coming years new and wonderful possibilities to the consumer by keeping pace with the ever present changes in technology and satisfying the ever increasing desire for new functions in a cost effective way