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Moxi Functions In Charter Set-top Box Next Year

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Combinations. by saintlupus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like the idea of merging the set-top box with a DVR using normal cable tv or satellite. A good combination.

    The trade-off, of course, is that they _both_ have to be upgraded if you want something better. The whole unit would have to be replaced, in this case.

    See how much people on here bitch about the iMac if you don't think this would be a problem.

    --saint

  2. Yea, great combo.... by Stiletto · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I like the idea of merging the set-top box with a DVR using normal cable tv or satellite. A good combination.

    Yea that's a great combination. While you're at it, let's combine my microwave oven with my freezer. Oh and don't forget that useful tiolet-sink combo.

    Bleh.. Just give me a cheap black box that does one thing WELL, rather than fifty things half-assed.

  3. What if these break? by taloobie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe someone has come up with this thought before...

    With all these convergence boxes/devices has anyone put in any thought about what happens when one breaks? I mean, if I invest in one device for everything and it breaks/hangs/crashes I'm SOL for everything I use the box for. I'd hate to lose TV, music, DVDs, gaming and web all at once...

    I tend to like many devices with specific purposes. That also seems to keep the stability up reasonably well.

    Does anyone else agree?

  4. What I don't like.... by MortisUmbra · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is that the cable company would controll it. Take the ReplayTV fiasco for instance. They fought back because they don't get any perks from the industry, however cable companies, that is their bread and butter. And being a cable company, God only knows what features they can/will/could put in it, or disable (like 30 second skip to bypass commercials). I don't trust the same people who provide my content to be the ones who allow me to manipulate it at whim. Then again todays climate could just have me uoverly paranoid :)

    --

    "The saddest words of mice and men, are not those which were, but should have been."