[IP] Motorola Introduces First All-Digital Set-Top Family With Built-In Home Media Networking Capabilities

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

If it is like the Motorola set top Comcast markets, we are in for  
problems.

Dave


Begin forwarded message:

From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: January 3, 2006 2:08:37 PM EST
To: undisclosed-recipient:;
Subject: Motorola Introduces First All-Digital Set-Top Family With  
Built-In Home Media Networking Capabilities


     Motorola Introduces First All-Digital Set-Top Family With
     Built-In Home Media Networking Capabilities
     - Jan 3, 2006 08:00 AM (PR Newswire)

Innovative New Set-Tops Simplify Whole-Home DVR, Sharing Music and  
Photos
                               Around the Home


LAS VEGAS, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT)
today redefined the digital video recorder (DVR) as a multimedia hub  
that lets
consumers access and share video recordings, video-on-demand (VOD)  
content,
pictures and music in and around the home with the introduction of  
the new
Motorola QIP family of products.


The new Motorola QIP6416 is a high-definition (HD) capable, dual- 
tuner DVR
with watch-and-record capability; the Motorola QIP6200 is a single-HD  
tuner
set-top; and the Motorola QIP2500 is a single-tuner standard- 
definition model.


These three new Motorola set-tops are the first to include built-in home
media networking capabilities.  Using a technology known as MoCA  
(short for
Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance), the Motorola QIP set-tops can  
create a
multimedia network using the existing coaxial cable already found in  
the walls
of a consumer's home.  This network is capable of transporting high- 
definition
video, high-quality digital voice, and high-speed data to  
televisions, DVR,
game consoles, wireless access points, and home computers.


The products are also unique because they support two different network
architectures within the same device, providing service providers with a
choice in way they can deliver digital video services into the home:  
The first
supported is the traditional quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)  
method
commonly used today by cable operators, which sends video information  
to the
home over radio frequencies.  The second is the newer, emerging video- 
over-IP
method, which delivers video to the home using packets of data.


Verizon Communications is the first Motorola customer to offer QIP  
series
set-tops, as part of the Verizon FiOS(TM) TV service now available in  
parts of
Texas, Virginia and Florida.  In an agreement previously announced,  
Motorola
is providing video network infrastructure and video consumer premises
equipment related to Verizon's launch of video services on the  
company's new
fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.  Verizon uses QAM to deliver  
scheduled
programming and IP to deliver on-demand video to FiOS TV customers.

...

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=54388131



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