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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCharter to offer PVR/DVD functions: Motorola/Digeo boxes intended to trump satellite capability. (Technology).(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, July, 2003 by Kerschbaumer, Ken
Charter Communications will begin rolling out 100,000 Motorola Broadband Media Centers in the fourth quarter, bringing HD, PVR and DVD functionality to its digital subscribers. The first market to receive the boxes will be Rochester. Minn. The boxes, which came out of a joint development between Digeo and Motorola, have an 80GB hard drive for the dual-tuner PVR, a feature that should level the playing ground with digital satellite boxes, which typically offer PVR functionality.
Mark Depitro, Motorola Broadband vice president of marketing and systems engineering, expects cable operators to begin deploying boxes with greater functionality. According to Digeo COO Bert Kolde, the services provided include the ability to store music, photos and other...
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