I hear that my review of four Digital Set Top Boxes appeared in today’s ‘Livewire’ section in The Age. After two years of sluggish movement on digital TV, suddenly there are announcements of DSTBs from Panasonic and Toshiba, both of whom will be attempting to wrest market share from DGTEC which, until now, has enjoyed a monopoly on High Definition units.
UPDATE (Friday, 4 July 2003, 11:11 am): – From a Sony press release dated 1 July 2003:
Starting July 2003, Sony will commence bundling its Plasma Television sets with the DGTEC HD Set-top-box (STB). By September/October 2003 Sony intends that all its widescreen televisions will be IDTV, or have the option of being bundled with SD or HD set top boxes.