Yes, Digeo is owned by Paul Allen.
No, it's not running any flavor of Windows. it's running Linux.
Early versions of the software had performance issues and other limitations. For the past two years, however, the U-I has been exceptionally responsive.

As a former Digeo employee, I had one at home, and kept the box until it died. I'm using a TiVo HD now. For speed (and some features) Moxi blew it away. There are, however, some very useful features on TiVo that Moxi didn't have. (I dont know if current Moxi software has caught up with these).

The most useful thing about tru2way in the short run is that it will allow cable companies to provide on demand proramming to third-party DVRs. (My TiVo doesn't get any of Comcast's On Demand programming.) That's not an issue for cable customers with Moxi because Digeo works with cable providers to integrate on demand into the Moxi U-I.

Since updating iTunes to 8.0.1 I can't sync my iPhone or my nano. I get an error message saying that the target "could not be read from or written to."

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)

WRT disclosure: An about box in the upper right corner of your blog may not cut it anymore. Isn't the new standard for disclosure a marker pen across the forehead?

Ben,

Don't be too hard Cringely. Check the date on his TV special? It's 1998. How much of anything any of us knew about HDTV then is still true today?

@23 rahrens, I agree, mainly. Except that cable is already ahead of the pack in serving content on demand. It's one of their key differentiators. Much of it is "free" (in the sense of "gift with purchase" if you're already paying for cable). Cable on demand content is always streamed and can't be saved to a hard drive. Some titles are available in HD. Steve has (so far) been right in betting that people wanted to own music rather than subscribe. But will that apply to TV and movies? The cable customer (and the Netflix customer) already have bought into the subscription model.

HDTV flat panels are dominating current sales, but there's a huge legacy base of older TVs that are not compatible with AppleTV. DVD players can connect to ANY TV. AppleTV can't. I wonder how many returns Apple is going to have when naive buyers discover this.

I remember the early days. There was a Mac on display at the Robinson's in Beverly Hills. A woman saw the instruction to use the mouse to point to objects and click. She picked it up off the table and used like a TV remote, pointing it at the screen and pressing the mouse button.

She never did get the channel to change.

It's not clear from this discription how the user navigates. Is there any navigation as part of the SlingCatcher? Or does it require the navigation be done on the PC. That will work fine if you're watching TV with your laptop in hand. What do you do if your computer is in another room?

We'll know in a few days, but I doubt that you'll see DVR capability in iTV--At least not at the price point that Steve has previously talked about.

IMHO, the smartest thing about iTV is that DVR is omitted. It radically reduces the complexity and cost of the device. To make a competitive DVR today, you need at least a 250 GB hard drive, at least 2 TV tuners (and they need to be able to deal with satellite or cable encryption). Look at the pricing of TiVo S3 and compare it to the pricing of iTV. (Remember, TiVo's business model is to subsidize some of the HW cost with subscription revenues.)

iTV will do one thing... and do it superbly well: it will allow you to browse and play content that comes from PCs and Macs on your home network.