Set-top Box -- the "Guide" of Digital TV
日期： 2021-08-25 19:32:38 阅读人数： 1195
A SetTopBox (STB) is an information device used to enhance or extend the functions of a television set. It is usually placed on top of a TELEVISION set.
According to statistics, in the first three quarters of 2008, the sales volume of China's set-top box market saw a blowout. According to research data, the sales volume of China's set-top box market in the first three quarters totaled 16.667 million units, up 83.4% year on year.
The reasons for the sharp increase in the sales of set-top boxes are as follows: first, after several years of development, cable digital TV has accumulated a lot of successful experience, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has many regions and cities to refer to in the promotion of digital TV, so the overall translation process of digital TV everywhere is faster and faster; Second, the set-top box manufacturing industry in China has a large scale, China is engaged in production of set-top box reached more than 200 enterprises, so many enterprises, makes China's set-top box market is very competitive, prices are dropping fast, digital cable TV set-top box purchase pressure is relative ease many operators; Third, more companies in the digital TV industry have participated in the digital TV conversion work, carrying out a lot of joint operation business model innovation, thus speeding up the process of analog to digital, stimulated the increase of set-top box sales. Fourth, the Beijing Olympic Games adopted "high-definition broadcast", but also to a certain extent to promote the development of set-top box.
For the discussion of the development of the set-top box, the majority of supporters believe that the future of the set-top box is bright and beautiful. However, the author believes that the rapid development of the set-top box can only show that the "digital age" is coming. Here, the author boldly predicts that when the "digital age" really comes and gets popular one day, it is the day when the set-top box recedes.
In the same way, today, when digital TV is gradually recognized by more people, but the technology is still underdeveloped, the existence of set-top box is inevitable, and in the short-term future will continue to develop and accepted by people, more and more people may install set-top box on the TV set at home. However, it is important to remember that TV manufacturers are adapting and developing TV production technology to adapt to trends. Who's to say that over the next few years, manufacturers won't be able to incorporate a set-top box-like device into TVS? Maybe some people will say that the set-top box is aimed at the TV "one to one" configuration, so, as long as the "digital TV" really develop to the point of everyone to receive, then, I believe, the TV production, design and "one to one" reception signal is not impossible. For manufacturers, this is a new value-added production; For people who watch digital programs, there is no need to put a set-top box on the TV to still receive and see digital TV. Why not?
In conclusion, the author thinks that, set-top box in the "digital TV" development path, act as the role of "pioneer", it brought digital TV to the people life, on the basis of the original "analogue television" brings a fresh air, but for its future development, the author predicted there will be a "short prosperity" phenomenon, The result will eventually be a technological revolution in television.
