The Internet Set-Top Box Scorecard

Set-top boxes have been poppin’ up all over the place this past year. You can’t swing a dead LOLcat without hitting some newfangled device being built or upgraded to bridge oldteevee with the newteevee. To help you keep up with the growing number of options, we put together this Set-Top Scorecard. It rounds up the major STBs we’ve covered over the past few months, and gives you a quick overview on each product.

Before your fire off comments, this list doesn’t include everything — there are dedicated Windows Media Center Extenders out there, companies like Boxee are creating open source solutions, consumer electronics firms like Sony and Panasonic are putting set-top functionality directly into their products, and even Time Warners Cable is mulling a PC-to-TV box.

This list will evolve and we’ll update accordingly. We already had to remove SanDisk’s TakeTV from the run-down, and we know that won’t be the last one to bite the digital dust.

Are you using any of these devices? Leave us a comment and tell us whether you love it or loathe it.