The latest leaner-meaner-greener set-top is here. Today at The Cable Show, Motorola announced the new DCX3501-M, an HD multiroom-DVR set-top with 500GB of on-board storage. The new set-top supports tru2way, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and storage expansion via eSATA. It’s interesting to watch the new numbers war start up around set-top hard drive capacity. If one [...]
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The Mark of Excellence awards are out again from the Consumer Electronics Association, and this year Motorola’s nabbed one for the Motorola SBG6580 SURFboard eXtreme Wireless Cable Modem. The SBG6580 was announced back in October and wrapped up DOCSIS 3.0 certification last December. It includes a D3 modem, 802.11n access point, four Ethernet ports, and [...]
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People have long predicted the death of the set-top, and yet it’s alive and kicking. As part of today’s quarterly earnings presentation, Motorola announced that it has shipped 100 million digital set-tops to date. That’s Motorola all by itself. And half of that 100 million have shipped since October of 2006. Set-tops are only one [...]
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Five years ago if you tried to get the media to talk about set-tops, you were usually laughed out the proverbial door. I distinctly remember one cover of a Forbes magazine with a big picture of a Motorola set-top splashed across the front. I remember it specifically because it was such a novelty. Set-tops were [...]
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Motorola’s Media Engagement Barometer found that Americans of all ages want to be connected at all times through their entertainment and communication devices – Millennials 80%, Gen Xers 78%, Boomers 78%. And guess what. They’re willing to pay for it. I was reviewing data this morning on gadget spending this holiday season and came across [...]
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