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Moxi Digital's Future Convergence Box Announced

Posted by timothy on from the until-the-fat-lady-plays-as-an-mp3 dept.

Many readers have submitted news of a new do-everything media box being hyped at CES. Fofer writes: "Steve Perlman, the founder of WebTV, is attempting to infiltrate the living room again, but this time it looks like he's on to something. Officially unveiled at CES 2002, the Moxi Media Center is a souped-up digital media server with an 80-gigabyte hard drive. It can deliver, to as many as four televisions, video recorded from a TV signal off of its integrated cable/satellite receiver, video or audio downloaded to the hard drive or from a built-in DVD/CD player. ... Articles with more info are here(1) and here(2)." When a product is still vapor, it's pretty easy to make it buzzword-compliant, too, and this one is supposed to work with Macs and IBM-style PCs, be based on Linux, work with Firewire drives, etc. Read the linked PR stuff to find out more.

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  1. ReplayTV? by Rosonowski · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My question is, though, is, if this comes into being, will it run into the same copyright issues and whatnot that the ReplayTV 4000, with the ability to send video over ethernet is coming under fire for?

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  2. No interactive DVD? by DodgyGeezer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also at CES is a demo of interactive DVD set top boxes. All this convergence and integration, and this Moxi box doesn't even offer this feature. For now I think I shall keep my money for other things until the market matures... I'll let those people with more money than sense be guinnea pigs for this kind of technology.

  3. Re:The Ultimate Digital Media Server! by b_pretender · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Why don't any of these Media Servers collect and organize my digital photographs for me? I'm forced to archive my photographs onto CDs and label the envelops.

    Isn't digital photagraphy a form of media? Aren't millions of digital cameras being sold? Why don't people demand a photo-management box? That would be easy compared to a DVD decoder. All that mine requires is PostGresQLa, PHP, and Apache. Probably USB so that the camera can upload to that rather than my PC.

  4. Moxi vs. iMac by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I just got back from the Macworld Expo keynote address by Steve Jobs and there could not be more contrast. Apple is putting all of there efforts into software and hardware to let customers make and share digital media. Moxi and Microsoft and the rest are trying to build devices that maximize the consumption of digital media.

    Hmm.

  5. Re:More bass-ackward thinking from geekland. by SteveM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's no need for personal copies of centrally available media.

    Unless your ISP goes out of business. Anybody @Home?

    Or you're in an airplane at 30,000 feet. No use radio devices permitted, but feel free to use our $5 per minute GTE Airphone!

    I'm sure there are other examples. These two are ones I've recently experienced.

    Sure instant on, wireless broandband, with redundant servers, at an affordable price (hardware and service)would sure be nice.

    You're right, someday there maybe little reason to own personal copies of such thing. But that isn't today. Until then I'll be wanting a personal copy thank you.

    Steve M