Motorola MPEG-4 Set-Tops

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Mari Silbey

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If you read this blog regularly, you may have seen this news coming. Motorola is introducing a whole new line of MPEG-4 AVC, all-digital set-tops. The DCX line includes the DCX3400 dual-tuner HD DVR, the DCX3200 single-tuner HD set-top, and the DCX100 single-tuner SD set-top.

With broadcasters already making the switch to MPEG-4 compression, the shift this year in cable set-tops was inevitable. As with encoders, however, the transition isn’t going to happen all at once. Which is why the new DCX set-tops support MPEG-4 and MPEG-2.

Other features in the DCX line include:

  • 1GHz tuners – Many operators are already upgrading to 1GHz networks for future bandwidth savings. Tuners in these set-tops will let them take advantage of those upgrades.
  • DOCSIS downstream channel bonding – Yup. A data connection. For “future services”.
  • Choice of software – As always, operators can run the software they want on these set-tops, legacy or OpenCable-based. (Tru2way?)
  • Support for MoCA (whole-home networking), HTML, DOCSIS, MCard, OpenCable and Dolby Digital Plus

Filed under: CES 2008, Cable, DVR, HDTV, Motorola News, TV, Video

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7 Responses to “Motorola MPEG-4 Set-Tops”

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  3. Keith, on January 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm Said:

    Wow nice!

    Hopefully it sports a decent CPU, memory, graphics power and allows for native HD resolution pass through.

    Can’t wait to get my hands on this. It looks nice. I will be keeping my eyes out for the full hardware specs and unit dimensions.

  4. TiVo Lovers Blog » Blog Archive » Motorola Announces MPEG-4 Cable STBs, on January 4th, 2008 at 3:53 am Said:

    [...] cable. Of course, part of that shift would have to be MPEG-4 capable cable set-top boxes. And now, according to MediaExperiences2Go, Motorola is ready to meet that need with the DCX3400 dual-tuner HD DVR, DCX3200 single-tuner HD [...]

  5. Mari Silbey, on January 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pm Said:

    It supports scaling up to 1080i and offers pass-through support for 1080p. Still waiting on the rest of the specs, but I’ll keep you posted.

  6. Motorola Booth at CES – A Day in Photos « Media Experiences 2 Go, on January 8th, 2008 at 5:13 am Said:

    [...] Finally, here’s a close-up of the new MPEG-4 set-tops. [...]

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