[Ads-l] "set-top box" -- needs a retronym ... or something else?

[Hugo]

In Finland it's called a "digiboksi" in Finnish (pronounced
"diggy-boxy") and often a "digibox" in English ("diggy-box").

But set-top box doesn't really need a new term, any more than my
laptop, which whilst sometimes atop a lap, is on a desk, and my
desktop is on the floor.

Hugo

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