According to tech consultancy In-Stat's latest research report released so far, digital satellite set-top box is one of the largest areas of digital TV set-top box market, in 2005 the global satellite digital set-top boxes sold 65 million units by 2009 expects its sales to to reach 79 million units.

           Digital satellite pay-TV set-top box equipment, including equipment and free TV set-top box device. Analysts pointed out that the advisory body, the development trend of these two devices is completely different, the former functions are becoming more abundant, whereas the latter has some of the most have the function. 

             Analysts that the advisory body, the latest digital satellite set-top box DVR features include a hard disk drive, a plurality of tuners, more interfaces include USB and Ethernet interfaces, like high definition decoding.