Posts tagged ‘Multiroom DVR’
Got a TiVo? See How MoCA Makes it WAAAAAYYY Better
Those guys on the AVS Forum are really smart. If they were stuck on a desert island, they’d probably find a way to get satellite TV using sand and a few coconuts and then display it on an HDTV make from fluorescent algae. That’s why we don’t dispute it when one of their members posts their own TiVo networking tests showing how MoCA performs almost identically to wired Ethernet and 2-4 times better than powerline or WiFi for basic TiVo activities like multi-room DVR. That means if you have a TiVo and you’re not using MoCA (or Ethernet), you are wasting double or triple the precious minutes of your life waiting for a download or stream, when you could be spending that time with your family, building the next Google, or finding a cure for the common cold. You would think that the major cable companies, Verizon, and DirecTV would all be using MoCA for THEIR multi-room DVR systems – oh wait, THEY ARE so shouldn’t you?
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Coax Home Nets Could See Five-Fold Rise by 2011
U.S. cable TV providers are expected to roll out multi-room DVR packages later this year based on the MoCA home networking technology. The services let TVs in various rooms link to a single DVR. To date Verizon has led the charge for MoCA, deploying MoCA as part of its FiOS broadband service. Time Warner, Cox, Brighthouse and Comcast, are likely to drive opportunities for MoCA in 2010 with the market moving from two million units per quarter towards up to 8 to 10 million units per quarter by the end of 2011, according to a report from Barclays Capital. MoCA’s next generation technology, MoCA 2.0 will be the next generation of MoCA. It will support two modes, one with throughput up to 400 Mbits/s and another with useable throughput up to 800 Mbits/s and is backward compatible with the current version 1.1.
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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.
