John Shutt wrote: > The first Coupon eligible STB has been announced, with retail > beginning in January 2008, coinciding with the start of the > coupon program. ------------------------------ http://www.tvtechnology.com/pages/s.0115/t.8790.html [ ... ] While Digital Stream may not be recognized by consumers, the Korean-based company has been providing internal DTV components for more than 40 TV models from well-known manufacturers. It offers HDTV built-in modules, receivers, HD media players, DTV antennas and IPTV solutions. ------------------------------ Strange that it was Digital Stream to be the first to announce. Good for them. They are the company that made the Accurian STBs, as well as STBs under their own brand name, that were perhaps the best of the 3rd gen breed. To meet the NTIA requirements, I suppose these new Digital Stream receivers have been improved to meet the A/74 guidelines. Would be nice to see some test results, and to see whether some of the manufacturers will also offer HD versions of their coupon program, bare bones STBs. Bert _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.