Moxi opens doors for hardware, software beta testers

Did Zatz's hands-on approach with Moxi's forthcoming Home Cinema HD DMR leave you thirsty for more? Willing to take one into your own home for awhile? Believe it or not, Moxi is actually recruiting hardware beta testers to pore over the high-end Home Cinema HD Digital Media Recorder, which means that you'll actually get one of the units in your house to try out if you're selected. If that's not really your bag, you can also apply for access to its (software-based) Moxi TV for PC beta, which only works on Windows XP and specific tuner cards at the moment. Granted, you'll be expected to devote a minimum of two hours per week to testing and provide "on-going feedback" to the outfit, but what else were you planning on doing over the holiday break? Hit the links below to get your name in the hat.

[Via ZatzNotFunny]
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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 7th 2007 4:18PM]

I had an Adelphia Moxi for several years. It was a piece of crap. It runs on Windows (Paul Allen was a founder of Digeo, so no big surprise). The menus were sluggish, got hung up all the time. My TiVO HD is way, way, way faster. I would no more go back to Moxi than I would go back to the dentist who used pliers and no painkiller.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2007 4:41AM]

Eric, the box you had ran LINUX, not WINDOWS. If for some reason you did have a box for SEVERAL YEARS that ran WINDOWS, I would either say you are mistaken or you paid for a counterfeit box. Which MSO is you current provider? I'm sure the people at Digeo (makers of Moxi) would love to see your year old Moxi box that runs "Windows"...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 11th 2007 1:30AM]

Eric, Moxi does not run on Windows. It runs on Linux. The software version you had did run slowly, but it has been updated and is now quite peppy. (Numerous user posts on AVS Forums will attest to the speed and functional improvements in the current software). Just as dentists have improved their methods since the pliers and no painkiller era, so has Moxi software. (I'm a former Moxi employee)