Posts tagged ‘dvr’
EchoStar Offers Sling Licensing
Until now, EchoStar has only offered the SlingLoaded feature only in its own boxes, including a model for Dish Network, European cable MSOs, and a tru2way box for the US Cable market. However, it is now offering the technology to other interested vendors.
EchoStar is most likely going to go after the largest cable set-top box suppliers in the US: Motorola, Cisco, and Pace Micro. This would allow for most people with DVRs to be able to watch content world-wide.
Motorola and Time Warner Team Up to Deliver Multiroom DVR
Motorola has teamed up with Time Warner Cable Inc, in order to develop a multi-room digital video recorder (DVR). Motorola is going to be using the MoCA technology to network all the DVRs in the house. This will bring features such as changing rooms while watching television by use of the “Follow Me” feature, being able to stream HD content to your DVR from your computer or other media devices, and much more that would not be possible with traditional Wi-Fi networks. The best part about using MoCA in the DVR is that consumers will not have to worry about slow downs or cutouts that are inherent with wireless networks.
Using MoCA (Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance) technology, the solution creates a multimedia network using existing coaxial cable in consumer homes. The network is capable of transporting high-definition video, high-quality digital voice, and high-speed data to televisions, DVRs, game consoles, wireless access points, and home computers. – Motorola Media Center
MoCA Powers Cisco’s New Cable Boxes
OK, I know this is an ad but it does give a good glimpse of what’s coming soon to a MoCA-enabled cable box near you. Specifically, the ability to play DVR-ed content on non-DVR cable boxes in another room! So now, instead of having to rent multiple DVRs for each room of the house, you’ll just need one living room DVR and a standard digital cable box in each bedroom. Each bedroom will be able to access the main DVR like it was there under the TV. The Cisco guy also talks about other great new features that will be added once your cable boxes can talk to each other via the MoCA network.
Tivo also has a similar feature that transfers shows between Tivos in different rooms.
