Motorola releases new HD set-top DCX700

This week at the SCTE Cable-Tec show, Motorola released the latest in its long line of digital cable HD set-top boxes. the DCX700 is an digital only box for those markets that have eliminated all those bandwidth hogging NTSC channels. It supports both H.264 and MPEG-2 as well as Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus. Also included is our new favorite networking protocol, MoCA, which will allow it to act as a multi-room DVR. This low profile box was designed with wall-mounting in mind and should eventually be available through your cable provider.

[Via MediaExperiences2go.com]

[Maxx Posted Oct 28th 2009 10:32PM]

Does it still maintain the cook a frackin egg on it function ? Because that is really important to me. If the casing can't burn me and heat up all my other electronics to where they don't work right then they can just keep it.

[Michael Kirschner Posted Oct 29th 2009 9:10AM]

I have the all digital DCX3400 which according to the Motorola website supports MPEG-4 how can it be that the newer box only support MPEG-2? Also the one I have the dcx3400 also MoCA but multiroom DVR is not active I assume the Cable Co will decide when, if ever to turn it on.

[BenD Posted Oct 29th 2009 9:17AM]

It supports MPEG-4, I wrote right in the post that H.264 was supported.

[Michael Kirschner Posted Oct 29th 2009 12:14PM]

Oh right my duh moment

[w0kie Posted Oct 29th 2009 2:40PM]

Another step closer to the demise of analog cable channels

[Mike Sylvester Posted Oct 29th 2009 4:56PM]

I think this must be the one my friend got the other day. He came in to work raving about how, small the box, great the picture, and lag-free the channel changing are. Sometimes it's good to work for a cable company.