LAS VEGAS -- Digeo's Moxi set-top boxes have been sold for years through cable providers, but later this year you'll be able to buy one through your local consumer tech outlet.
The Moxi Multi-room DVR system consists of a large-ish set-top box that sits near your TV set and stores your content (shown below), and some smaller extender boxes that store no content but bring the video (as well as music and photos) to other TVs in the house over your existing cable wiring. You plug your cable card directly into the back of the main set-top box, which also contains a large hard drive for storage, supports HD and plays DVDs.
The Moxi Multi-room DVR system consists of a large-ish set-top box that sits near your TV set and stores your content (shown below), and some smaller extender boxes that store no content but bring the video (as well as music and photos) to other TVs in the house over your existing cable wiring. You plug your cable card directly into the back of the main set-top box, which also contains a large hard drive for storage, supports HD and plays DVDs.
Digeo is especially proud of Moxi's user interface (which the booth rep here said "kicks ass and takes names"). The system lets you quickly scroll horizontally through the various functions of the system. After selecting one (Recorded TV, for example), a list of selections displays vertically, and you just scroll through them and pick what you want. I found the Moxi channel guide to be nice looking and fairly easy to use.
Here at CES Digeo is announcing several new web-based content partnerships. Speaking of photos, Moxi just announced an agreement with the photo hosting site Flickr that lets Moxi users pull their photos into the Moxi system for viewing on TVs.
Like many set-top box makers here, Moxi has its own way of getting internet video content onto the TV: the Moxi doesn't give its couch-sitting users complete access to the web, but rather is establishing a sort of walled garden of especially TV-ready content. For instance, the video it pulls from the Associated press works especially well on the TV. And there are several other video aggregators to choose from.
Here at CES Digeo is announcing several new web-based content partnerships. Speaking of photos, Moxi just announced an agreement with the photo hosting site Flickr that lets Moxi users pull their photos into the Moxi system for viewing on TVs.
Like many set-top box makers here, Moxi has its own way of getting internet video content onto the TV: the Moxi doesn't give its couch-sitting users complete access to the web, but rather is establishing a sort of walled garden of especially TV-ready content. For instance, the video it pulls from the Associated press works especially well on the TV. And there are several other video aggregators to choose from.
