Digeo, the maker of Moxi Media Center PVRs, said it has deployed 100,000 of the units in cable TV markets served by Charter Communications. Charter now offers the Moxi PVRs to more than 85 percent of its 2.7 million digital customers.Charter will be rolling out the PVRs to other markets before year end, the company said. It now offers its new Moxi multi-room PVR service in St. Louis. The multi-room offering, called Moxi Mate, lets customers share recorded programs, DVD content and photos between rooms in the same home.
The Media Center applications include games and a photo player. Moxi said that 20 percent of customers use the applications in a given week in other markets.
The announcement of Moxi penetration in Charter markets comes at a time when TiVo is aggressively trying to increase its stand-alone subscribers. DirecTV, TiVo's largest customers, recently began pushing its own PVR. Unless the current rebate offers for cheap TiVo boxes really take off, TiVo may be left behind in a market it created.
1. "Charter now offers the Moxi PVRs to more than 85 percent of its 2.7 million digital customers."
There is no way that is true. They may offer DVRs to 85% of their digital customers, but in the majority of their markets Charter is not using Moxi. Commonly, Charter uses the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD DVR, which is not a Moxi-based unit.
As for TiVo being left behind, don't forget that Comcast is the largest cable operator in the US - and that's who TiVo has their deal with. Along with the promotional deal with Cablevision and the association for independent cable operators. And if TiVo wins the lawsuit against EchoStar, it will put them in a good position to obtain more license fees from other DVR makers, or to license the TiVo software to other operators.
(OT: My name at the right under 'Contributors' links to my personal website, which was silly of me - can that be changed to http://www.livejournal.com/community/tivolovers/? It is the more appropriate site. Thanks.)
Posted at 7:09PM on Oct 11th 2005 by MegaZone