Set-top box makers still waiting for customers
 

*Source: News.com (http://www.news.com/Set-top+box+make...tag=nefd.top)*
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Imagine investing in a restaurant and then having to pay for your meal every time you eat there.

Sounds like a raw deal--and it's a situation similar to the one that confronts buyers of set-top boxes that download movies via the Web: You invest a significant amount of money when you buy the box, then whenever you want to watch a movie, you have to pay again. It's one of the reasons that, so far, the few companies to introduce standalone products in this space, such as Akimbo and MovieBeam, have called it quits, or at the very least no longer exist in their original incarnations.

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