Wired
August, 2000
TINY TUNERSYou don't see the tuners that govern the television stations you pick--they're hidden in the guts of your TV set or cable box. If your television features picture-in-picture viewing, it has two tuners, and you can watch only two stations simultaneously. As we move toward high-speed (a.k.a. broadband) Internet distribution and millions of channel options, we'll want to fill the TV screen with shows. That won't be possible with current tuners; they're expensive and big (about the size o...
