Digeo To Ship Full-Featured Linux-based PVR

Gentu writes "Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has embraced Linux in his latest product offering, Moxi. Moxi is a PVR system from Digeo with some additional cool features, like wireless ethernet support, internet/router/firewall/gateway capabilities, DVD playback and more media functionality in general. OSNews has the article, screenshots and more information. "

Comments

Re:Anyone else find this a little suspicious?

[BrK]

The "technological" reason is because Digeo started out as Moxi, which was another Steve Perlman venture. By the time that Digeo/Motorola bought Moxi they had already invested significant R&D into a mostly-working platform that was based on linux.

Who knows what Perlman's motivation for linux was over Windows (my guess would be all the obvious stability, resource requirements, licensing issue), but at this point Paul Allen's associations with any other OS have nothing to do with why the box runs linux today.

I'm anxious to see when/if these boxes actually show up en masse in consumers homes.

What's the point?

[xchino]

My Freevo box is Linux based, and can act as a firewall/gateway/router. Do I get a slashdot article too?

Re:I'd still rather roll-my-own

[tmhsiao]

For five to six hundred dollars, if you're unscrupulous, you can buy a TiVo with lifetime subscription, and add a TiVo network card, and load software to download your shows to an existing computer.

You could also try a TiVo with lifetime sub, and a video capture USB device (like a Dazzle or Pinnacle), and add it to your existing computer.

Both will guarantee that you'll get a far better interface than one that you could build, plus an exceedingly rich featureset.

But rolling your own does have a "I want to figure out how this works" appeal, as well...