Motorola aims for TiVo crowd Comcast customers get new cable box with VCR powers By Mike Hughlett Tribune staff reporter December 8, 2004 The television set-top box--that ungainly contraption needed to watch cable TV--will never be a sexy product. But it is getting a makeover that is helping to boost sales for Motorola Inc. The new boxes, which are being introduced across the Chicago area for Comcast cable customers, can record television shows much like a VCR. The boxes can also store hours and hours of shows on a built-in hard drive. The digital video recorder technology, pioneered by TiVo, has caught the fancy of consumers who want to save a season's worth of episodes for a favorite TV show or simply record one show while watching another. Motorola and Georgia-based Scientific-Atlanta are the dominant providers of set-top boxes. And their cable customers are starting to flex their muscles on DVR technology and eat into TiVo's market share. Satellite television remains a TiVo stronghold. But cable television is a bigger market. Comcast, Motorola's biggest customer and the nation's largest cable TV operator, is in the midst of a massive DVR rollout. ... http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0412080367dec08,1,419411.story ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.