At best, watching television can be educational as well as entertaining, but nobody wishes to raise literacy levels by simply sitting in front of a TV box.

电视至多有教育和娱乐功能，但没人指望简单地通过看电视来提高读写水平。

It's a neat idea, a box that lets you buy videos off the Web and play them on a TV.

它是个纯概念，一个让你从互联网购买买视频并在电视上播放的盒子。

When I disconnected my cable TV box, I let it sit idly in the corner of my apartment for several weeks.

当我把有线电视盒电源断掉后，一连好几周我都还把它静静地留在公寓的角落。

You’d see it in commercials, they’d demo it in stores, and it seemed to represent a sort of shift where the TV image was no longer strictly confined to the solid frame of the box it came in.

你会在许多商业活动中看到它，人们会在商店里演示它，似乎画中画技术代表着一种转变，即电视的图像不再被死死地限制在一个电视固定的框里播放。

A useful analogy is the familiar cable TV box.

这与我们熟悉的有线电视机顶盒很类似。

From personal experience, after some initial oohs and aahs, our household quickly grew bored with our Web TV box.

从个人经验来说，在最初的惊奇和兴奋之后，我们这些宅男宅女们迅速就对机顶盒厌倦了。

Watching several episodes of a TV show in a row, usually from a DVD box set.

通常用DVD碟片盒，一集接一集地观看连续电视剧。

If you were thinking of starting a set-top box company that delivers video content to the TV, let me stop you right there.

如果你正在考虑创办一家机顶盒公司，为电视机提供视频内容，那么我现在就要制止你。

My whizzy $299 white, gray, and silver Apple TV box sits largely unused next to a big-screen television in my bedroom.

我价值299美元的白色、灰色和银色的苹果电视盒子很大程度上安静地呆在卧室的大屏幕电视边上没有使用。

We've discussed the potential for the next generation of the Apple TV set top box before.

我们以前讨论过新一代苹果电视机顶盒的潜力。

Combine that with the $99 probable price for the set-top-box, and I’ll bet the Apple TV will have several USB ports in the back for a mouse and keyboard rather than any sort of touchscreen.

结合极有可能售价$99的机顶盒，我敢打赌苹果电视将会拥有几个USB接口供鼠标和键盘使用，而不是搭配一块触摸屏。

I was able to view and record TV shows, something you can't do out of the box on an iMac.

我可以观看和录下电视节目，但在iMac上没有那个盒子，也就做不到这一点。

Despite Microsoft's limited past success in getting people to hook up a PC to their TV, 2011 might be the perfect time for a new Windows Media Center box.

尽管微软在让用户把个人电脑和电视衔接上的成功非常有限，2011年也许会是Windows媒体中心电视机盒上市的绝佳时机。

The Z1 is the first TV and tuner box capable of transmitting an uncompressed Blu-ray signal from across the room, courtesy of the SiBEAM 60-gigahertz WirelessHD chip inside.

Z 1是第一台无线电视，调频器盒能穿越房间传输一种无压缩的蓝光信号，它内部装有SiBEAM 60千兆赫的WirelessHD芯片。

Or the Akimbo (2005), a set-top box that gave you instant access to any TV show - any, that is, in its microscopic catalog.

另一个例子是Akimbo(2005年)，一个能够即时提供给你任何电视节目的置顶盒——但是只能是从它提供的那些节目里挑选节目。

The "TV control interface" occurs in a white box expansion at this level of decomposition, and thus is treated as a black box.

“电视控制接口”就被视作一个黑盒来处理。

Although TunerFish is available only on the Web for now, the company says it could eventually be brought to the TV screen through an application running on a set-top box.

尽管TunerFish提供的这些服务眼下只能在网上使用，但这个公司说它最终将可以通过在借助机顶盒上运行程序使这些功能在电视上实现。

One is an Apple TV, a $229 set-top box in my living room that plays digital audio and video through a standard home-theater system.

一个是Apple TV机顶盒，价格229美元，放在我的客厅里，通过一个标准的家庭影院系统播放数字音频和视频。

“It’s more flexible than a Boxee box or Apple TV,” says Stude. “You are not limited to just a few types of content and put in a walled garden.”

Stude说，“这个技术比Boxee机顶盒或是Apple TV要更加灵活，你不会被限制在有限的几类内容或是被放在一个封闭的范围内。”

Options include matted film on windows; mood lighting LED lamps with changing light colours; built-in TV and touch-screen monitor; wi-fi router; alarm; intercom and safe deposit box.

其他可供选择的设备还包括：窗户上的合成影像，可以变化光色的LED情绪台灯， 内置电视和触摸屏显示器，Wi - Fi路由器，闹钟，对讲机和保管箱。

Televisions with Internet built in could eliminate the set-top box altogether by offering access to Web video directly or using the new Tru2way technology to deliver interactive TV functionality.

网络电视加上网络视频接入服务或新的Tru2way(美国有线电视系统的标准)互动电视功能，能够淘汰机顶盒。

I also successfully tested the built-in TV function, which requires a cumbersome external attachment to work with a cable box.

我还成功检测了其内置的电视功能，这个功能需要一个以分线盒连接的笨重外接设备。

The room had two mattresses on the floor, a TV set on a cardboard box and a strong stench from the lavatories next door.

房间底板上有两个床垫，一个纸板箱上放着电视机，从隔壁的厕所里还飘出阵阵臭气。

By scaling down and moving video around within the box, we were calling the video image that made up our TV programming something else, something new and in a sense, portable.

把视频缩小，可以在电视里任意移动视频的位置，利用这种功能，我们可以点播其它电视节目的图像。 这是新事物，而且从某种意义上来说，很灵活。

Meanwhile, box-office revenues from cinemas are flat, and TV channels increasingly prefer cheap reality programming to Hollywood's flights of fancy.

同时，院线票房表现平淡，电视频道也越来越倾向于播出廉价的真人节目，而不是好莱坞的奇思妙想。

Even choosing to see yourself as a character in a movie or TV show the actor plays, will get you out of your box, help you think differently, and open your eyes to how magical you truly can be.

甚至把自己想象成电影或电视剧里的角色也能把你从自己的世界里解脱出来，让你换种思维方式，并开眼看看你到底能有多神奇。

Please pack one TV set to cardboard box, four set to wooden box suitable for export.

请把每一台电视机用一个纸板箱装起来，每四台装一个木箱，要用适合出口用的那种箱子。