Will Cable TV Set-Top Boxes Become Obsolete?

     More and more smart tv boxes come to the living room.According the report says 23 percent of households now have a smart TV that connects to the internet. That might not sound too impressive, but it’s a 43 percent increase in a single year, from 2015 to 2016. And 24 percent have a connected device like a Roku or Apple TV, an increase of 10 percent over the same time period. The number of households with a subscription to a video-on-demand service like Netflix is now equal to the number with a DVR.

      It took well over a decade for the DVR to hit the point where it was in more than 50 percent of homes. While smart TVs have been around since around 2010, the explosion in number of brands and availability of broadband internet, coupled with price declines, have made owning one of these fancy sets feasible for more people. And if you don’t have $400 for a smart TV, you can just nab a Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, or Chromecast to lift your set’s IQ.
      It’s not just that more people have these devices; they’re also using them more. The amount of time per week spent using a “multimedia device,” as Nielsen refers to Roku, etc., is now at one hour and 34 minutes. People in the 25-34 age demographic are far higher than that average, at two hours and 36 minutes, but those over 35 are also starting to devote more hours of their day to their TV-connected devices.
      After serveral years, cable TV Set-top boxes will be not apparence on market.