Motorola, Time Warner mixing up multiroom, tru2way cable setups due later this year
By Richard Lawler 
posted Apr 1st 2009 10:39AM
posted Apr 1st 2009 10:39AM
posted Apr 1st 2009 10:39AM
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Most of TW's footprint uses Cisco/SA equipment, so won't be affected by this deployment.
Also, it would be highly surprising if the video on these boxes isn't confined to just the cable company STBs in other rooms over the MoCA (coax) network in your house. I wouldn't be expecting cable shows to be accessible to your PC or media streamers. Even getting the video off the MoCA network would require some kind of MoCA/Ethernet bridge. And of course the video is heavily encrypted.
Smudgy glossy stuff. Far too realistic. I fade!
Take one part 1980's alarm clock, add some cable technology, and hey presto - you have a Motorola cable box.
No kidding, when are they going to ditch that ancient LED panel?
Actually, the DCX3400 and the DCH3xxx/6xxx series are the only Moto STB's that still have an LED Front panel. The DCX3200 and DCH100/200 do not. Then again, they also ditched the buttons too, meaning if you loose/break/smash your remote, your stuck on whatever channel you last tuned to, there is no way to change it without another remote.
Oddly enough, the boxes without displays on them, while they are really nice to us, are REALLY slow movers, as your average Joe Six-pack expects to see a clock above/below their TV, and they are returning the boxes that dont have it..
This means Comcast will likely be rolling this out too since Time Warner and Comcast are actually partners in most of there networks and divvy up the billing and management operations by market.
Why to the Tru2Way STBs look like they're illegal cable descramblers from the 80s?
Even the EchoStar Tru2Way box looks like ancient technology.
TIVOOOOOO! Where is the Series 4 HD with tru2way SDV? Please don’t get caught flat footed like a dinosaur in the rain peering up at the doomsday comet in the night sky. GET MOVING ALREADY!
maybe they can finally make a time warner box that doesnt lag to hell and back when you try and look at the guide while on an hd channel
But why did they have to style it like a 1980s VCR?
Giving the users choice? This is Big Cable we're talking about here. I'm still surprised I'm allowed to install my own cable modem though... And while we're on the topic, when the heck is DOCSIS 3.0 going to roll out in SoCal?!
lol funny! I worked on this product and it's sitting right in front of me... :)
why did you make it so fucking ugly?
This product is ugly cause I didn't design it... and I feel the same way when I first saw it... sad sad...
If you have anything to do with product development, PLEASE put Power buttons on your future boxes.. And if you can swing it, at least a channel up/down button.. Its crazy that the DCH100/200 and DCX3200 have no buttons at all..
wow they brought back the VCR
Wow. No wonder Motorola is doing so poorly. If they can't even put a smidgen of polish on a new product, how do they expect to sell anything? Even an idiot techy knows how shiny objects work. This thing looks like a VCR throwback. Have they really been trolling the landfills for new products???
Bad! Really, Really bad!
Boo!!!
Been a member of windstream(formerly charter digital) in Georgia and I have to shell out an extra $250 for one of these p.o.s boxes if I want all my channels in more than one room.
Boo to big cable!!!
Shame on you and your ancient technology...