As we’re devloping HDMI IP, one of the interesting topics in the HDMI community is NG STBs (Next Generation Set Top Boxes) will become dominant in the market in next couple of years. What’s new is that the STB acts simultaneously as a HDMI Sink, an HDMI Source and a HDMI Repeater. The first application for this new STB being deployed today will provide SKYPE video phone features at the television through the STB, but other applications are planned and coming. The Skype applications requires the STB to overlay both video and sound on top of the external media stream coming in on the HDMI-input from the other HDMI sources in the HDMI cluster.
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