Cable Boxes With DVD, MP3, Networking

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @11:39PM from the geek-toy-beckons dept.

Bruha writes "It appears that Charter Communications cable division is in the first phase of rolling out a new home media center-style cable box. The article on CNN describes the box with a 80 Gig hard drive, dual tuners (With HDTV), DVD, and WiFi networking capability to allow music to be transferred to the unit along with pictures from your PC. Copyright protection prevents recordings from being copied to the PC, and Charter has ordered 100,000 of these boxes." We covered a preliminary announcement of this box, which uses the Linux-based Moxi software, last year.

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Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-16 23:43 · Score: -1, Troll

Just what the MPSS / RIAA / GNAA don't want
Re:Other cable providers? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 00:13 · Score: -1, Troll

Symptoms of this new box should develop about 24 - 72 hours after their merger with Pussies Telecom.