Cox prepping a multi-room DVR for sometime this year
by Steven Kim 
posted Apr 7th 2009 at 10:26AM
Cox Communications will be bringing its own multiroom option to its DVR lineup, but it's keeping quiet about some significant details -- namely, the debut market and timing. Aside from our inability to get excited about a feature that may not be coming to our service area for an undetermined price, Cox is at least hitting some key points for the new multiroom option, including support for HD, larger hard drive capacity and sharing content around your home using MoCA technology. Tru2way was not mentioned specifically for the "next generation guide" software also promised for the DVR, but we wouldn't be surprised to see that make the cut. So yeah, Cox is ticking off some checkboxes, and we'll keep hoping for a really good cable company DVR; but as most folks who have compared a TiVo with the cable co DVR will tell you, usability isn't necessarily spelled out in the feature list.
Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Set-top boxes, Cable
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ivan @ Apr 7th 2009 10:49AM
This will be nice, I hope it comes to Tulsa, OK.
rwiseman @ Apr 7th 2009 12:49PM
I wondered if this would ever happen. I'm in Northern Virginia, and I've had a mysterious unused MRDVR channel for a few months now.
thecybernerd @ Apr 7th 2009 2:28PM
I am also in Northern Virginia. What channel is it?
Thanks,
thecybernerd
rwiseman @ Apr 7th 2009 3:15PM
I'm at work now, but If I remember correctly it's the next channel up after the HD DVR channel. 751, i think.
Kingpcgeek @ Apr 7th 2009 12:50PM
I am sure we will get it sometime in 2012 in Phoenix.
Kevin O @ Apr 8th 2009 2:29PM
Our DVR's got a new guide version last night at about 2:30AM. It's the Nov. build. Nothing really changed in it. I did notice that COX said that tru2way WILL be in the next guide that is supposedly coming out this summer. It won't be Macrovision/Aptiv anymore. It's some new guide that COX developed with some company I've never heard of. I can't look right now for it 'cause I'm about to head to work... but will look for the press release tonight when I get home. Google "Cox New Guide" and it will bring up search results for their new guide coming out.
Andrew @ Jun 23rd 2009 5:04PM
It's being developed by NDS for cox. They are also porting it to onramp to work on low end cable boxes.
YouFaceTheTick @ Apr 8th 2009 11:11PM
Cox is so awful. We had their "service" for a month. You can't remover channels or set 30-40 of your favorites - you MUST cycle through all of their channels. They don't even put HD versions of the network channels on their respective channel. So if CBS locally is channel 10, on Cox the HD version is not channel 10 (that's SD), the HD version is weird like 713.
Bad, bad service.
mbahmbah30@yahoo.com @ Jun 30th 2009 10:38AM
please can you make available at least one African chanel on your network? i propose afrotainment.....channel 751