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The hype around Moxi continues. Announced. Retracted. Now apparently in limited distribution.

It will be interesting to determine if their underlying tech changed – it still appears to be a Flash based interface. What’s under the covers? Doesn’t really matter to me as the introduction of the Moxi will drive continued innovation in the DVR/Home Entertainment Console market.

Hopefully Time Warner will upgrade their DVR offering soon.

Alas poor TiVo, I knew thee well: The battle for control of the interactive-TV market just keeps getting more interesting. Digeo is expected to announce today that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, has agreed to begin a trial of Digeo’s Moxi media centers in a handful of cities this year. The deal is a coup for Digeo which now seems poised to wipe the floor of the cable market with TiVo. And for good reason: Moxi is far superior to rival offerings. It boasts a dual-tuner DVR and HDTV and home networking support. Some models even come equipped with a DVD player. It’s an all in one box and it’s going to generate a lot of buzz when it finally begins landing in consumer living rooms. And while Comcast is committed to deploy just 200,000 units, some analysts are already saying that Digeo may soon the front-runner in the PVR market. Said Josh Bernoff, an analyst at Forrester Research: “If you go out to 2005 and 2006, this Digeo product is likely to be the dominant cable box for digital video recording.”

 

via Here comes Moxi!: