Comments on: More Details On Upcoming Moxi DVRs

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:43:19 +0000

Nope, these sellers are probably full of crap: “Works with many cable and satellite providers.” The Motorola box they list most likely works on very few cable networks and zero satellite networks. Agnostic retail versions are due this fall, and that’s what you want to wait for.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:33:10 +0000

Oh I c;
Here is the link for the item I was looking at, There are a few more on Ebay. Let me know if that is what you are talking about. Thanks

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:58:10 +0000

The retail Moxi units are not available yet. So what you’re probably seeing on ebay is a cable box from Charter, TWC, or someone running Moxi software – which won’t work for you unless you’re in that service area.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:55:02 +0000

Hello;
Was just browsing looking for some info on this unit. Is it not out yet?? It is being sold used on E-bay, Please clarify for me as I don’t know much about it.
Thanks for your help.
PS. Great site!!!

Eugene

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:30:19 +0000

GameJerk, Have you received the 4.1 software update yet? I hear that speeds things up. When I played with the Home Cinema unit I didn’t notice any lag, though that particular model is probably a higher-end computing platform than the cable box you have.

By: GameJerk

GameJerk — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:54:24 +0000

Been using Moxi for the past 2 years and the UI is usable but INCREDIBLY slow. It is honestly almost unusable. 5-10 second lags when bringing up new menus. It is nowhere near as user friendly as the tivo. As it is I only use moxi for HD content and continue to use my Series 2 tivo for all SD content even though it doesn’t look as nice over S-Video.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:35:23 +0000

I have been using my HD Moxi for about 3 years now through Charter cable and its really nice. The UI was rather non responsive though up until the last update that went out about a month ago.

By: CharterJames

CharterJames — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:00:31 +0000

Moxi has a very intuitive interface, using the cable one, my 4 year old can recognize his favorite channels by icon – and hopefully the home one will be a network device and not like the current one which has it’s own cable modem.

The Tivo SIII has a faster interface, but it was not in my opinion as user friendly. Given Moxi already has the groundwork from the past boxes to offer them with intergrated DVD, External USB hard drive expansion and now 5.1 Home theater… I see this sucker taking off. –

The next gen m-cards should soon support “open cable” applications – which in theory should allow Tivo and Moxi access to VOD. Furthermore if this is a “network appliance”

Though when they first started advertising to MSOs they mentioned doing a CD (maybe DVD) burner as well???? Add that into the package and you could get away with a $1000 price tag!

I would also think Digeo would go the extra mile and even offer some sort of set top internet browsing (The Moxi interface at last check is basically a specialized Linix platform)