Universal set-top box: A simple design to provide accessible services

This paper presents the design of a low cost accessible digital television set-top box. This set-top box was designed and tested to the Japanese-Brazilian Digital Television System and considered the adoption of the solutions that would provide accessible services in digital television in the simplest digital television receiver. The accessible set-top box was evaluated regarding the processing and memory requirements impact to provide the features for accessible services. The work presents also the impact analysis in the bandwidth consumption.