The software can be found in more than 11 million set-top boxes.

The challenge will be to actually get users on board with yet another set-top box.

It's not clear yet when and how they'll replace the set-top box.

A digital television service which you can access by buying a set-top box.

But even if the set-top box is not the answer, Malone will just wait until the next one appears.

But, in practice, he said, the quality of the set-top boxes and other gear was poor.

So I spend 10 minutes punching it into the set-top box.

Perhaps the most significant addition to the set-top box in recent years has been the digital video recorder.

He said set-top boxes resulting from the effort would not appear before the summer of next year.

Although I should be able to buy a set-top box of my own, nobody will sell me one.