Masters Thesis: Good Introduction to Graphics on STBs

Yongjun Zhang Masters Thesis (pdf file) makes a good read as an introduction to graphics on set top boxes. Recommend for anyone who is just starting into this field. Although written in 2003 and thus qualifies as archaeology in Blog terms, it is an easy read and shows how little has changed in the last 6 years.

The thesis correctly identifies that STB chipset manfacturers will supply OpenGL ES in the future and that programmers on set top boxes will require some higher level API, not just OpenGL. It does unfortunately miss (understandably at that time) the emergence of OpenVG, the 2D vector oriented language.