http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/ Engadget Comments for Several bidders line up to buy Motorola's set-top box division http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
This would be a slick deal if I could get 10% bing cash back on it.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Where's that 'Make an Offer' button?]]>Dec 23rd 2009 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 23rd 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
I'm like "Whaa?" and then I'm like "damn!" then I feel like and gullible idiot that doesn't speak proper grammar. ]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/I was thinking, "They're selling Motorola on eBay?" And then it clicked, and I felt like a complete dumbass. :-(]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/You could change anything on any site with no photoshop.

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Realistically speaking, none of the other potential bidders listed know squat about the cable industry. They're thinking "we own the box that connects the last mile to your house." What they don't know is the cable industry controls everything that can happen on that box, and they're not going to give you, as the box maker, any more money than they already do.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
I hope it's Arris. That would fit in with their home integration plan and also mean the possibility of an Arris branded SDV adapter for the Moxi so I don't have to use the piece-of-crap Cisco box that TWC give out.]]>Dec 23rd 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 23rd 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
Seriously, these boxes are capable of doing so much, and the cable companies dumb the hell out of them. Pisses me off.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/]]>Dec 22nd 2009 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 22nd 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Not really... if the set top (commodity) business margin is crap, then sell it and keep the rest of the infrastructure. With your car maker analogy, Toyota for example does not own the company that makes the tires; i.e. the commodity component.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 23rd 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Motorola has historically used the set top business to lock providers into other infrastructure technologies. Chiefly via DC2 encryption and access control. The problem I see for them is once that lock-in is gone there's really not much reason to use most of their other infrastructure products. CMTS, cable modems, physical plant, etc are agnostic but they are falling behind Cisco and other competitors in all those categories. Now they're opening the door for Cisco to come in and compete on encryption & access control too. I would guess they just want to exit cable entirely and can't possibly sell the whole thing off at once so they're doing it in pieces. They have enough legacy set tops out there to ensure their encryption & access control business won't disappear over night. I bet they'll drop the other pieces too. ]]>Dec 23rd 2009 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 23rd 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
Seems like a better number would be more like 20% of 11B or maybe $2.2B... especially when you consider that the STB business won't be worth as much to anybody else as it is to Motorola (since it brings in sales of other Motorola products that are required to use their encryption and authentication tech etc).]]>Dec 23rd 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
my brand new moto DVR (DCH3416?) randomly won't allow me to pause or rewind live TV. The only way to fix this is to change the channel away, and back to the one I want to pause. Or, to hit record, go into the recording and forward to the place I wanted to rewind to... yah... Moto can't program themselves out of a paper bag... ]]>Dec 23rd 2009 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 23rd 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/They make my FIOS Boxes!]]>Dec 23rd 2009 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/Dec 23rd 2009 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/several-bidders-line-up-to-buy-motorolas-set-top-box-division/
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