Title :
Architectural considerations for a digital set-top box with mass storage
Author_Institution :
Microwave Syst. Corp., Des Moines, IA, USA
Abstract :
Adding a hard disk to a digital set-top box seems easy, but only if it roughly imitates today´s analog systems. The new possibilities offered by time shifting in a digital receiver pose some interesting architectural problems.
Keywords :
Consumer electronics; Digital television; Disk storage; Television receivers; Video coding; MPEG encoding; RAM; consumer device; data stream; digital receiver; digital set-top box; hard disk; mass storage; time shifting; user interface; Buffer storage; Decoding; Delay; Demultiplexing; File systems; Hard disks; Hardware; Read-write memory; User interfaces; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2000. ICCE. 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6301-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2000.854484
