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Digeo Announces Media & Storage Expansion for Moxi Media Center

Posted on: Monday, 3 May 2004, 06:00 CDT

NEW ORLEANS, THE NATIONAL SHOW (NCTA) and KIRKLAND, Wash., May 3

/PRNewswire/ -- Digeo, Inc., the leading provider of media center software and services, today unveiled the Moxi(TM) Plus media and storage expansion for Moxi Media Center products, including the Motorola BMC9012 and Moxi PowerKEY(R). In a single, plug-and-play device, the Moxi Plus combines additional hard drive capacity to accommodate storage-hungry high-definition TV recordings, DVD/CD drive to enhance movie watching and music listening, and a multi-format memory card reader for digital cameras to simplify viewing photos on TVs. Moxi Plus gives cable operators unprecedented flexibility in serving the ever-expanding home entertainment and storage needs of their subscribers.

"As High Definition becomes more mainstream, DVR storage requirements will explode," explained Peter Kellogg-Smith, Vice President of Product Marketing for Digeo. "All Moxi Media Centers have two HD tuners, ready to show off HD content on this new generation of HD displays. Moxi Plus allows operators to adopt a grow-as-you-go strategy that holds down the capital costs of initial deployments and allows, for the first time, the ability for consumers to purchase their own equipment for additional storage when they're ready for it."

With configurations that range from an additional 80 up to 360 Gbytes of storage, Moxi Plus can store over 40 hours of programming at full HD resolution. In addition to providing extra storage for recorded TV content, Moxi Plus provides readers for the most popular digital photography memory card formats, and can be configured with a DVD/CD drive.

Moxi Plus is subscriber-installable with a simple USB 2.0 cable and can instantly boost the capacity and functionality of any Moxi-based Media Center. Initial versions of Moxi Plus are currently scheduled for late 2004.

About Digeo, Inc.

Digeo, Inc., provides media center software and services that inspire consumer loyalty, generate new incremental revenue, and position cable as the leading source for home entertainment.

The Moxi(TM) platform from Digeo powers a new generation of media centers through which cable operators can deliver high-revenue services and applications-such as digital video recording (DVR), high-definition TV, and on-demand and pay-per-view content-to the whole home at competitive cost per TV. The multi-TV architecture and breakthrough user interface of the Moxi platform provide all Moxi applications including DVR, DVD, information on demand, jukebox, photos, games, and more from any cable access point in the home using existing wiring. Digeo has also developed an innovative chipset that integrates essential media-center functionality and can substantially reduce future set-top box production costs.

Additionally, Digeo offers the Digeo(TM) iTV service to over one million subscribers, which is the most widely deployed cable iTV service in North America. With Digeo iTV, cable operators can increase the value of their existing digital set-tops by offering field-tested services that have demonstrated increased customer satisfaction and churn reduction, and effective cross-selling of video-on-demand (VOD) and pay-per-view (PPV) offerings.

Moxi(TM) Media Center customers include Comcast, Charter and Adelphia. Digeo is primarily backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. The company has offices in Kirkland, Wash., Palo Alto, Calif. and Longmont, Colo. For more information, please visit http://www.digeo.com/.

NOTE: Digeo and Moxi are trademarks of Digeo, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

PowerKEY is a registered trademark of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

Digeo, Inc.

CONTACT: Diane Schreiber, +1-415-321-1871, or diane@sparkpr.com, orSteve Kerns, +1-415-321-1891, steve@sparkpr.com, both of Sparkpr, for Digeo

Web site: http://www.digeo.com/

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