Talk:Set-top box/Archives/2013

Addition to "Energy Use" section

As a representative from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA,) I would like to have the following addition added to the "Energy Use" section. This is an important step forward by the consumer electronics industry to voluntarily create more energy efficient set-top boxes and should be mentioned on the wiki page.

Energy use

In 2011 a report from the National Resources Defense Council brought attention to the energy efficiency of set-top boxes.[10] In June 2011 the US Department of Energy announced plans to consider the adoption of energy efficiency standards for set-top boxes.[11] In November 2011, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association announced a new energy efficiency initiative that commits the largest cable operators to the purchase of set-top boxes that meet Energy Star standards and the development of sleep modes that will use less energy when the set-top box is not being used to watch or record video.[12]

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In December of 2012, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced a [1] Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement signed by Comcast, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Verizon, Charter, AT&T, Cablevision, Bright House Networks and CenturyLink, and manufacturers Cisco, Motorola, EchoStar Technologies and ARRIS. Through this voluntary, five-year Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement, these companies commit that at least 90 percent of all new set-top boxes purchased and deployed after 2013 will meet EPA ENERGY STAR 3.0 efficiency levels. For immediate residential electricity savings, “light sleep” capabilities will be downloaded by cable operators to more than 10 million digital video recorders (DVRs) that are already in homes.

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Thank you. Samantha (snevels@ce.org) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.154.88.2 (talk) 18:15, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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monique austen need a converter/descrambler for each channel. A converter box by definition takes the stream of multiple signals off the cable and remodulates them to channel 3 or 4 for for viewing on the set. Michael William Meissner (talk) 14:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, some of these converters rely on block conversion to move the entire cable midband/superband to UHF - while channel 3 (with 2 or even 4 as alternate in areas where 3 is a local broadcaster) is most common, there's nothing saying that "by definition" the destination must be this one specific channel. It was just an easy target for the designers of these boxes as it's a relatively low frequency. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 14:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Answer to 2 Video recorder question

With analogue TV I've been able to pre-programme 2 video recorders to record two different channels as well a watch third programme all simultaneously.

A set top box even still using video recorders won't be able to do this any more as you need a screen per set box per channel--- any ideas?

You'd need a set-top box for each channel you're simultaneously recording, but you wouldn't need a screen for each. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.80.212 (talk) 05:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)