Jabarkan Televisi digital dari Set-top box dalam bahasa sunda

In the United Kingdom, digital set-top boxes (often referred to as digiboxes, after Sky Digital's trademark for their unit) are usually for digital terrestrial television through services such as Freeview, a service operated by the Freeview Consortium, or through digital satellite with BSkyB and also with digital cable. They are used to access television as well as audio and interactive services through the "Red Button" promoted by broadcasters such as the BBC with BBCi or Sky with Sky Active.

Special digital set-top box are available for receiving digital TV broadcasts on TV sets do not have a built in digital tuner.  In the case of direct broadcast satellite (mini-dish) systems such as SES Astra, Dish Network, or DirecTV, the set-top box is an integrated receiver/decoder (IRD).

In IPTV networks, the set-top box is a small computer providing two-way communications on an IP network, and decoding the vidéo streaming media.