From simple, cost-effective devices providing basic broadcast TV experience, Video on Demand (VoD), Electronic Programming Guides (EPG), and Internet browsing, to full media centers that include DVD playback and recording, personal video recorder (PVR), and personal multimedia (music, pictures, and videos) repository functions, Set-Top Boxes present opportunities for network service providers to deliver new and exciting home entertainment services that defy expectations. Combine the functionality of a set-top box in its various forms to a
networked media device (NMD) or a local media player to make these devices the center of the home entertainment experience.