On Sunday 15 August 2010 07:57 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
Here are some links to cheap STB type pc devices and interesting writeups.
As JTD has pointed out, there is no up link in STB, so it is not possible to browse. Some time back I have read about, down link through satellite and up link through land line.
Any device that sits on top of the television set is a Set Top Box. There is no link in particular with any Satellite device. I had used IPTV for a month before I gave it up. It was a linux based thin client STB, the size of an ADSL modem. It had an audio/video out and an ethernet port. MTNL charged Rs. 100 per month as rental and 200/- per month for all channels. The same can be modified to turn the TV into a linux desktop. As net booting is laden with problems, a local booting through a flash card would be ideal for any ISP situation.