Digeo is committed to the the Moxi HD DVR and has rolled out some updates. So far I like what I see as the updates addresses many of issues I had with the DVR. First and foremost, the DVR now has an optional grid guide, which is a great alternative to the the vertical bar layout that was previously the only option. Thank goodness, I say.
But this summer update isn’t just all about software, Digeo also announced the Moxi Mate: An expensive second room media streaming device. Read More
Want a Moxi HD DVR? Do ya? Really?!? Well, Digeo is giving away two of the DVRs.
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Think of the Moxi HD as a hot, new Hollywood actress. She might have the look and desire to be the next big thing, but she just doesn’t have the goods to hang with the real starlets. That’s the Moxi HD DVR. It looks amazing, but the core functionality isn’t as good as other options and it fails to offer anything significant in comparison.
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Despite some initial issues with the Moxi HD DVR, I’m starting to dig the $799 DVR. Digeo has plans to soften the overall cost though with a monthly payment plan. The overall $799 price hasn’t changed though, but maybe this payment approach will help move some more of the units. The $799 price is still a touch high, even though there are not any monthly fees like TiVo. It’s something to do with the lack of ATSC tuner, multi-room viewing, and only a 500GB hard drive.
I’m curious. How do normal people – non geeks – survive in this gadget filled world? It’s a fair question as nearly every gadget or piece of technology I have used in the last few years required days of Google’n and trial/error usage before the damn thing would finally work. Maybe I’m different than most and actually expect gadgets to work properly.
Thinking back, the only semi-advance gadget that hasn’t given me grief recently was an Archos 605 media player. It just worked. Files transfer onto the player by dragging and dropping via USB mass storage support. Then much to my surprise at the time, all the files I transfered onto the unit played back fine at the original resolution. There wasn’t any need to re-encode the files with some random program to a random resolution or format; it just worked and made me smile.
Now I’m playing with this Moxi HD DVR and cannot be more upset with it. I spent most of yesterday’s evening trying to get the network support up and running. The bundled software, PlayOn, doesn’t run on OS X or Windows Home Server so I dove into Google looking for another DLNA media streamer.
Update: Added a video describing why modern life is broken.
Somehow in the hoopla that surrounded the latest Moxi HD press release, I failed to notice that the recently added DLNA media streaming capabilities does not support AVI or MKV files. This is huge. Suddenly I’m looking at this sexy DVR like it has chlamydia. I don’t want anything to do with it. The lack of AVI or MKV support makes the DVR kind of useless in my house.
Sure, TiVo’s implementation of media streaming is far from perfect. The system actually copies the video file onto the TiVo hard drive, which is annoying but supports nearly every file format including the two in question here.
I finally received and installed a Moxi HD DVR after some shipping issues with Fedex . I have to say though, I’m not that impressed two days in. The company screams on the official website that the Moxi is superior to TiVo in almost every way – seriously, it does – but besides the pretty eye-candy GUI, I wouldn’t call everything superior. The Moxi has some sweet extra features that TiVo doesn’t, but I feel like the core functionality of watching and recording television isn’t all that better.
Click through for more initial thoughts and unboxing pics.
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