Magyar Telekom CTO Integrate set-top functionality into TV

Even as vendors continue to focus their set-top box efforts on emerging markets, at least one IPTV service provider technology executive in such a market is indicating that there really is no need for a set-top if a TV can do the job. 

Matthias Linder, CTO of Network Technology at Hungary's Magyar Telekom, told IPTV News it is time to move the functions of a set-top into the TV, if for no other reason than that it will save the service provider the cost of the equipment. 

"TV sets are becoming more and more intelligent--many of them are just Linux computers, like a set-top box, so if a customer already has a smart TV in the home, why put another Linux computer in front of it?" Linder asked in a wide-ranging Q&A with the publication. "Wh not use the capabilities that the smart TV has to integrate the set-top box functionality into the TV directly?"

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