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Moxi is Coming to Life


Moxi Motorola Set-TopAfter a big splash at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2002, Moxi was set to become the next big star in the connected home entertainment space. Moxi’s hardware/software platform was supposed to enabled next generation set-top boxes to combine television services including a digital video recorder, digital music jukebox and enhanced DVD playback with Internet applications such as instant messaging, e-mail, Web browsing, and chat. But all its initial hype soon fizzled out when word spread of the merger between Moxi Digital and Digeo, Inc.

Moxi TV ScreenshotNow two years later, a press release from Comcast and Digeo, Inc. announces “a planned commercial trial of Motorola Broadband Media Centers (BMC) with Moxi™. Deployment of approximately 40,000 integrated dual-tuner DVR (digital video recorder), HDTV (high definition television) Motorola BMCs is slated to begin later this year.”

* Brought to our attention via Engadget

News Link: Sam Diaz, “Comcast releasing its own set-top box,” Mercury News, April 26, 2004.

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Alexander Grundner is the Editor & Publisher of eHomeUpgrade. He has been following "Digital Home" developments since 2003. He's also a fan of cross-platform, open development software and industry standards related to media, networking, and the web. You can catch his daily tech musings on Twitter: @agrundner.
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