The SIR-TS160 is the first consumer set-top box to use industry-standard DVI (digital video interface) jacks with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) implementation. Combined with a DIRECTV Advanced Program Guide, selectable output formats, and a videophile design, the SIR-TS160 is a great all-in-one choice for HDTV content reception. The SIR-TS160 uses a seven-day Advanced Program Guide that integrates both analog and digital signals for seamless switching between programs broadcast over satellite and over air. Samsung's proprietary speed-enhancement technology offers the fastest guide-surfing experience available in any HDTV satellite receiver to date. A new guide search lets you scan program listings via the names of actors, movies, and other one-step search fields. A picture-in-guide window makes it easy to watch a program while surfing the listings, or Samsung's Quick Guide will display listings, one 30-minute time-slot at a time, in an opaque overlay atop a program.

Consistent with the all-in-one theme, the SIR-TS160 offers selectable outputs, including 1080i, 720p, 480p, and 480i. This optimizes performance by matching the output to a digital television monitor's native resolution, whether it's a plasma-, LCD-, DLP-, or CRT-based set. Additionally, the SIR-TS160 simultaneously outputs standard 480i composite-video, allowing a dual connection with an analog TV or standard VCR. A full complement of audio-video inputs accommodates current and future devices. These include component-video (Y, Pb, Pr), RGB and HV (15-pin D-sub), two composite-video (one with S