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Is MOXI Toast?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-want-my-dtv dept.

onosko writes "Moxi Digital, one of the big hits of the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show in January, has bitten the dust, absorbed by one of Paul Allen's companies, Digeo. At CES, Moxi showed a Linux-based PVR and home entertainment server system that used Ethernet or 802.11a to distribute video, audio and JPEGs throughout a house. Last week, Digeo announced that it would not use Microsoft's interactive TV software." This really looked liked the best of the upcoming PVRs. Bummed to see it collapse. Here is a somewhat related and really entertaining short bit about Tivo turning 3

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  1. Birthday presents... by Foxman98 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The TiVo folks did celebrate it, though. We let go. In fact, almost nine months to the day after we shipped Blue Moon 5 babies were born to TiVo employees within 5 days of each other. (True!)"

    Hmmmm.... nah.... I couldn't be....
    Wait a minute!!!!!!! Dad's B-day - 5th of March. Mine - December 10th - ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHH

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    S.t.e.v.e.
    1. Re:Birthday presents... by chrysrobyn · · Score: 3, Funny

      "The TiVo folks did celebrate it, though. We let go. In fact, almost nine months to the day after we shipped Blue Moon 5 babies were born to TiVo employees within 5 days of each other. (True!)"

      Hmmmm.... nah.... I couldn't be.... Wait a minute!!!!!!! Dad's B-day - 5th of March. Mine - December 10th - ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHH

      I was 22 before my then-girlfriend (now wife) pointed out that my Dad's birthday was July 7 and mine was April 7. I had gotten through that much growing up and never thought about it.

      Yuck.

  2. Re:Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You bet it is.

  3. Anyone else... by Van+Halen · · Score: 2, Funny

    See the headline and think Apple was replacing the next version of Mac OS with CD burning software?

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    Say hello to zMac.

  4. Reminds me of a scene from BraveHeart by GMac · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scottish weather being what it is ...

  5. Re:Sure about ownership? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Word on NPR this morning was that they were BOTH Vulcan funded companies.

    Moxi is not dead. In fact, it will live long and prosper.

  6. SLASHDOT is Toast by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Funny

    After all, they were bought by another company, OSDN.

    Yeah...

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    "And like that ... he's gone."
  7. Where were PVRs when Manimal was on the air? by sjonke · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many episodes would fit on a Tivo?

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    --- What?