Comments on: Clarifications On Digeo’s Moxi Plans From Digeo COO Greg Gudorf

By: razordullwit

razordullwit — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:41:03 +0000

Well, I’m still a little mad because I spent so long holding out for a Moxi instead of grabbing up a TiVo HD. But, maybe the DVR will eventually come out and it’ll be the successor to ReplayTV that I’ve been waiting for. Until then, I guess I’ll shell out the $300 and learn to say things like “Season pass” and “wishlist” and “unbox”.

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:12:59 +0000

I thought about getting into the whole CES thing, but I only had about 10 minutes with Greg. We started out with him going over the details, then I got to ask some questions. Just about the time I got through all the product questions I had to clarify those points, Gaby said we needed to wrap up because Greg had another call to get to. I thought about it, but it seemed like too much of a can of worms to try to field quickly so I decided to let it be. My impression from all the time I spent with the folks at CES is that they didn’t know. I found a Google group today which seems to be for the folks who were laid off, and from checking that out it was a surprise. So I don’t think the people at the show were deceiving anyone.

But, as you say, decisions like this don’t get made in a day so upper management probably new it was coming before CES. I’d have to guess they didn’t want to go into the show without a product story or any (additional) uncertainty.

The PC software doesn’t worry me so much. From what I was told it is the same code used on the dedicated boxes - in fact all the units use code compiled from the same source - so it isn’t as large of a resource investment as an independent product would be. On the other hand, ReplayTV tried it and failed. Moxi TV for PC will be entering a crowded market, which is also soon to be entered by TiVo, which has much higher brand recognition with consumers.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:55:32 +0000

It’s interesting what they find important versus what we find important. How/why Mike Fidler is stepping down doesn’t matter so much to me. The status of those peripheral (in the true sense of the word) relationships doesn’t matter much to me either.

However, I’m interested in the CES charade - how many people industry and press did they mislead last week in their booth and at meetings? Surely the executive staff knew this was coming, laying off 80 people isn’t a spontaneous decision. You might be the only one left listening to them at this point…

Having said that, I am interested in what’s coming next - sounds like a reset on the CableCARD multi-room box. I’m surprised they’re still moving forward with the PC software and actually it gives me less hope in the company’s future success.