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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. Whats funny by papasui · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is that all these companies are owned by Paul Allen and the article states that the main competitor will be Microsoft (which was co-founded by Allen).

    1. Re:Whats funny by frameshift · · Score: 3, Interesting

      paul allen also owns tech tv which promotes linux and one of the popular shows on tech tv is "the screen savers" with leo laport who does linux support on air. they also did a show on installing linux. i thought this would be kinda weird for a station that is owned by someone that holds a lot of stock in microsoft.

  2. And the Remote? by phraktyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, the Moxi Pad of course!

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  3. All-in-one systems by Andy+Smith · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I like the idea of merging the set-top box with a DVR using normal cable tv or satellite. A good combination.
    Here in the UK the main satellite provider, Sky, has a normal digibox but also an enhanced system called Sky Plus that is a combo digibox and PVR. There's no MP3 or DVD support but it does allow you to record one satellite channel while watching another. It's been around since last September. I've had one for most of this year and it's an awesome piece of kit, despite a few technical problems along the way. The box itself costs £300 and there's a £10 monthly subscription.
  4. Re:Yea, great combo.... by malice95 · · 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.

  5. There will probably be a catch by Influxx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds like a great idea but i'm sure there will be some type of encoding that won't allow you to record premium channels or skip commercials. This is just some kind of ploy to trick the consumer into self-limiting what they can record and view.

  6. No mention of auxilliary receivers by uradu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I remember correctly, the original Moxi system had optional set-top boxes that you could string via Ethernet throughout the house to watch content off the main box on other TVs. That's what I found the most appealing about the Moxi. The rest is hardly an improvement over the current TiVo devices.