TiVo Premiere Elite at Best Buy Magnolia – 1st MoCA CE Product
Quad Tuning TiVo Premiere Elite Now Available – Zatznotfunny
The first (MoCA enabled) TiVo Elite’s have shown up at Best Buy Magnolia stores and they are already sold out and backordered online. In fact, in the first week of availability there are already numerous reviews, forum discussions, unboxing videos, and general discussion all mostly positive about the new features. 4 digital tuner, 2 TB of storage, Multiroom streaming, dual core processor and MoCA home networking make up the most advanced TiVo DVR to date. Not to be overlooked is that TiVo Elite is the first MoCA-enabled consumer electronics product to be sold at retail and is compatible with other MoCA Home Networking products from NETGEAR, D-LINK, Channel Master, and Actiontec.
See the TiVo Elite unboxed video below:
Pace, DirecTV Prep Launch of Home Media Center :: Communications Technology
Pace, DirecTV Prep Launch of Home Media Center :: Communications Technology.
The trend towards a big Media Server in the home that will provide all HD video services to your connected TVs, game consoles, iPad/tablet, or smartphone is building momentum. DirecTV and Pace will launch the first RVU servers that will complement the Samsung RVU TVs that were launched earlier this year. Of course, MoCA plays a big part in connecting all of the devices together whether it be to a Smart TV in another room, a wireless access point to bring service to an iPad, or an IP set-top box for your old legacy TV through a MoCA Adapter.
TiVo also announced their monster 4-tuner DVR which will play the same Media Center role for TiVo subscribers (also using MoCA connectivity). The next step will be all new apps available for the client devices – more TVs, STBs, and mobile devices that will work with the DirecTV or TiVo servers. Stay tuned!
NFL goes OTT on PS3
DIRECTV and PlayStation Bring NFL Sunday Ticket to PS3 – PlayStation Blog.
Once upon a time, if you were a lowly cable subscriber you had to suffer through the NFL season watching your local team and some other random game on Sundays. Now through the miracle of OTT Internet video, relief is finally here (Oakland/SF Bay Area fans rejoice!), NFL Sunday Ticket is available via any broadband connected PS3 (for a small fee of course). DirecTV is allowing non-DirecTV subscribers to sign up for 17 weeks of out-of-market NFL games, the Redzone channel, and mobile access for $340 for the entire season. That’s just $20 / week, about the price of 2 movie tickets, for an all-you-can-eat NFL buffet.
This just happens to coincide with the recent PS3 price drop to $250 for the basic console. And since every game is streamed over the Internet at full HD quality, it’s a no brainer to use MoCA Coax Networking to ensure a HDTV quality picture every Sunday and beyond. In addition, networking your PS3 with MoCA gives you stutter free online gaming with no interference versus a wireless connection.
Read the announcement here.
MoCA Tech Back at CEDIA Expo, and Bigger Than Ever
The CEDIA EXPO 2011 is coming up, Sept 7-10 in Indianapolis, IN, and this year promises even more MoCA exhibitors and products than ever before. Last year it was DirecTV that was launching their new whole home DVR service and this year should include even more MoCA surprises. See the announcement from MoCA Alliance website below:
MoCA® makes it simple.
Join MoCA at Booth 327, CEDIA Expo 2011, September 8 – 10, Indianapolis Convention Center, Indianapolis, IND
Use MoCA and make money in retrofit video and connected TV installs.
HOW?
- See our live demo and training at CEDIA Expo, Booth 327.
- Attend our money making, retrofit install training session: FREE!
Friday, September 9 @ 10:00 AM OR 2:00PM. Marriot Colorado. Click here to add to your planner. (http://cedia11.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=18ADC6)
Indianapolis, Indiana
CEDIA EXPO, Indianapolis Marriott® Downtown Marriott – Colorado room
350 West Maryland Street
Want a free pass to EXPO? Email Robertas@mocalliance.org before Sept. 1, 2011.
Get the CEDIA Expo app:
Verizon FiOS Coax Networking Adapters Now Shipping! Yes, It’s MoCA.
JR.com: Actiontec Verizon Coax Network Adapter
Verizon FiOS customers are lucky enough to enjoy the fastest broadband speeds available nationwide, but now they can access their fast Internet through a WIRED network anywhere in the house using Verizon FiOS Coax-to-Ethernet Adapters. Produced by Actiontec, who also builds the Verizon FiOS BHR Router, the Verizon FiOS Adapter uses coax cabling in the home to enable an Ethernet port in any room of the house. Need an Ethernet port to connect your new Smart TV – no problem, put a FiOS adapter behind the TV! Want a wired network to hook up your PS3 to stream HD movies or download games – install FiOS in the bedroom! If you need 4 Ethernet ports for your Bluray, Xbox, Slingbox, Apple TV, just add an inexpensive Ethernet 4-Port Switch to expand the number of ports.
Most FiOS customers don’t know they have a MoCA network already running in their home so they can magically access their networks using this official Verizon-branded MoCA adapter (and other MoCA compatible adapters). The Verizon adapter (Actiontec model ECB2200V) is available online at various resellers including J&R through Amazon.
TiVo unveils Premiere Q quad-tuner DVR (w MoCA!) | The Digital Home – CNET News
TiVo unveils Premiere Q quad-tuner DVR | The Digital Home – CNET News.
It took a while, but MoCA-enabled TiVos are finally here! TiVo unveiled the Premiere Q quad-tuner DVR and Preview client set-top (which streams from any Premiere DVR) making both boxes available to cable operators for now which a retail version possibly coming very soon after (see TiVo Premiere Q Headed To Retail As Premier Elite). Specs include MoCA networking built into both the Premiere Q and Preview allowing both devices to stream video throughout the home and from the Internet for over-the-top programming. TiVo is touting the first hybrid cable + Internet TV multiroom DVR system combining the best of both broadcasting and broadband entertainment all made possible by MoCA coax networking!
Read the article here.
MoCA – Officially The Fastest Growing Home Networking Technology
Infonetics Home Networking Devices
Reports from the big market research firms are starting to confirm what should be obvious to home networking enthusiasts – that MoCA coax networking is the fastest growing home networking technology around. Here’ s the Instat take:
MoCA experienced the greatest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46% over the 2007 through 2010 time period.
and here is what Infonetics had to say:
The small but fast-growing MoCA coax-Ethernet adapter segment posted the highest revenue growth in 2010, up 93%
Given that MoCA is the technology behind new Multiroom DVR and Over-the-Top VOD services from DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, etc… it’s not a stretch to imagine that MoCA may start catching up with WiFi in US Pay TV households.
From a recent Cisco router announcement:
According to industry research group IDC, only 39% of US homes have wireless, while only 11% are using Wireless-N technology.
MoCA will quickly surpass 10M US homes sometime this year so the prospect of catching and passing 11N is a very real possibility. Passing 11N may have been unimaginable just a few years ago, but MoCA coax networking may now be the best kept secret in home networking.
The VUDU That You Do, Now Does MoCA!
VUDU – Shop VUDU – Listed Under “Others” Tab
VUDU meet MoCA. MoCA meet VUDU. VUDU-MoCA. MoCA-VUDU. The best matched pair since Peanut Butter met Chocolate, VUDU now includes MoCA adapters as recommended devices for it’s service. For those of you unfamiliar with VUDU, the Walmart backed service offers streaming Movies and Videos, including 3D, at up to 1080P high definition resolution over your broadband connection. When you’re streaming that much video, viewers want to have the fastest, most reliable wired connection available.
That’s where MoCA is such a great match, supporting 3 or more HDTV streams simultaneously without interruptions or interference. You can be watching VUDU in 3 different rooms in your home, on a Connected TV, Bluray/Boxee and Game Console, and not see any glitches or buffering over a MoCA Network (providing that you have a fast enough broadband link). The site shows MoCA adapters from NETGEAR, D-LINK, and Actiontec in addition to the many connected consumer electronics devices that support the VUDU service.
MoCA Powers Custom Home Theater – Custom Retailer
Custom Retailer February 2011.
The Custom Installation market, which includes Home Theater installation, is changing the focus from new home builds, which have slowed significantly, and on to retrofitting existing homes with the latest digital entertainment systems. However, few homes have existing CAT-6 cabling which makes MoCA an ideal solution for quickly and inexpensively adding new Ethernet ports to rooms that need them.
Mike Ehlenberger from Actiontec Electronics outlines the advantages of using MoCA for customer installers including the ability to finish more jobs in a lot less time than running CAT-6, speed and reliability of the home network, and compatibility with existing cable and satellite networks in the home.
This article also gives a great overview of the basics of MoCA technology for anyone interested in installing a wired home network for digital entertainment.
New MoCA Installation Videos on YouTube
New installation videos are now available on YouTube showing how to install MoCA adapters with various connected devices including Internet TVs, Bluray Players, Game Consoles, Slingbox, TiVo, etc… Stay tuned for more videos on MoCA installation, operation and features – subscribe to our MoCABlog YouTube channel today !
