Hands-on with Motorola DCX series MPEG-4 cable STB

by Richard Lawler posted Jan 7th 2008 at 2:31AM

We got a chance to touch Motorola's sexy new 250GB DCX series MPEG-4 / Dolby Digital Plus / MoCa / OCAP cable STB tonight. You already know the important information so we'll get you to the in the wild pics without much ado other than a quick recap of what ports the promo unit was sporting on its "not available for photographs" backside: HDMI, USB, eSATA, component, digital audio out (S/PDIF and coax), 1394, ethernet, M-Card.

Filed under: Set-top boxes, Others, Cable

Tags: dcx, moca, motorola, mpeg-4, ocap

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Jose Rodriguez @ Jan 7th 2008 4:34AM

i want to upgrade to the Motorola DVR with 160 GB Hard Drive. this looks very nice though.

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GhostDoggy @ Jan 7th 2008 5:19AM

Until they manufacture and my local redneck cable provider uses an HD DVR capable of 50 hours or more of HD recording capability then its 100% moot for this consumer. I understand their complaints on hardware costs, but they also seem to go out of their way to prevent consumers from baring the costs via external hard drive attachments.

For instance, the Scientific Atlanta solution allows for external hard drive attachment. Both DBS providers have HD DVRs where external drives can be used. Yet, my local redneck cable operator (a Comcrap franchise) continues to use old inflexible Motorola junk.

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