ssetta
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Natick, MA | [DVR] Motorola going away? I just had a tech visit and he told me some rather interesting information. I've been curious as to when the X1 platform will be available to non-triple-play customers, and he actually told me that before too long, Comcast will be doing away with Motorola boxes completely. This is the first time I've heard this, and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it, because I'm getting sick and tired of this old, outdated looking guide. Has anyone else heard this? |
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| said by ssetta:I just had a tech visit and he told me some rather interesting information. I've been curious as to when the X1 platform will be available to non-triple-play customers, and he actually told me that before too long, Comcast will be doing away with Motorola boxes completely. This is the first time I've heard this, and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it, because I'm getting sick and tired of this old, outdated looking guide. Has anyone else heard this?
Motorola sold their "box" division to Arris Group. Well Google did anyway, as Google bought Motorola then sold it. But don't get too excited as Motorola has nothing to do with the Comcast guide anyway. Pace and any other box on Comcast's system run iGuide or the newer X1 Guide. So it doesn't matter which box you have you will be stuck with the same old guide. Comcast promises they are upgrading all older DCX+ boxes to X1 but I don't see that happening till 2014+!
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Mullica Hill, NJ | I think that sale made the MSOs happy, with some reading between the lines, When motorola mobility was initially grabbed by Google some of the MSOs feared Google might try and shake up the STB market in ways not friendly to contracts with IP owners.(ie enable the ethernet port on a box and let people stream media to their LAN without subscribing to an extra service.)
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no it is not going way with comast they just want to use more companies compatible with the motorola system |
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kudos:4 | dude arris BOUGHT moto. so i dont see how that made MORE companies.
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| what i mean is comcast told me they are looking at more cable box manufacturers that support Motorola back end. |
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gar187erI do this for a living
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kudos:4 | Well there arent any other manufacturers.
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ssetta
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Natick, MA | reply to FifthE1ement
I've been asking about the X1 platform for awhile, but they keep telling me Triply Play is required. But he said the newer boxes just do a better job overall with everything, even if using the old iGuide. Maybe that's what he meant. But he said to call them in a couple of weeks, and that they expect all the Motorola boxes to be gone by the end of June (of this year)! I think that's a little soon, and I would expect that if that were to happen, we'd get notified of it ahead of time. They said that they would actually come up to your door and ask to replace the boxes. |
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said by gar187er:Well there arent any other manufacturers.
Uh WTF?
There a bunch of Moto compatible vendors...
Pace is a big supplier of new equipment for Comcast right now.
They make the RNG110, an RNG150N model, and the current X1 DVR and a revised model that will be shown at The Cable Show in June.
There are upcoming products from Humax and Arris (not the recently bought Motorola division, Arris itself) too. |
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said by ssetta:But he said the newer boxes just do a better job overall with everything, even if using the old iGuide. Maybe that's what he meant. But he said to call them in a couple of weeks, and that they expect all the Motorola boxes to be gone by the end of June (of this year)! I think that's a little soon, and I would expect that if that were to happen, we'd get notified of it ahead of time. They said that they would actually come up to your door and ask to replace the boxes.
I think your tech is confused a little bit. I think he might be referring to older Moto hardware that isn't designated an RNG box. Comcast has started labeling newer more future proof hardware as "RNG" from various vendors. But Motorola hardware is still definitely around just being labeled as RNG.
»Comcast Cable TV FAQ »Comcast RNG equipment |
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ssetta
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Natick, MA | What?? Now I'M starting to get confused because I keep hearing different things. Maybe the new Pace box won't have the same glitch that these Motorolas have. The glitch where you get tiling while swapping tuners. This didn't start happening until the software update back in December. The only thing is, I don't think you really get to pick which box you have, you just get whatever is available. I had the box swapped out for one just like it. |
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| said by ssetta:What?? Now I'M starting to get confused because I keep hearing different things. Maybe the new Pace box won't have the same glitch that these Motorolas have. The glitch where you get tiling while swapping tuners. This didn't start happening until the software update back in December. The only thing is, I don't think you really get to pick which box you have, you just get whatever is available. I had the box swapped out for one just like it.
You just identified the problem, it's a software issue, not a hardware one.
As FifthE1ement said, the box itself (as long as it is a recent one, for Motorola that would be a DCX series) is almost irrelevant at this point. Any box you get will be loaded with the same old I-Guide software. |
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