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Moxi Functions In Charter Set-top Box Next Year

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 16, 2002 @01:28PM from the it's-spreading-my-precious dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Charter Communications will offer a Moxi-like cable tv set top box with DVR / MP3 capabilities next year. Here it is. I like the idea of merging the set-top box with a DVR using normal cable tv or satellite. A good combination."

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Re:Yea, great combo.... by malice95 · 2002-07-16 14:23 · Score: 4, Informative

The reason I've not purchased a Tivo (other than the need for the stupid on-going service) is that I don't want to do MPEG->Analog->MPEG->Disk->Analog to watch my satelite feed. MPEG->Disk->Analog is a much shorter path with only a single decode involved.

Um.. the direct tivo unit records directly from the stream. There is no analog conversion involved until you watch it. Its mpeg stream to disk direct. Its also dual tuner and avaliable now.