Here’s the Seagate eSATA drive for the Motorola DCH set-tops. Announced May 19, 2008-At NCTA’s Cable Show, it adds storage for the DVR - up to one terabyte’s worth of TV shows. That’s 200 hours of HD or 1,000 hours of SD content.
The new Showcase™ products will provide television and movie fans with the ability to store even more shows, movies and sporting events. With initial capacities up to 1TB, consumers will be able to keep up to 200 hours of additional HD movies or 1,000 hours of additional standard definition television. You’ll never have to choose between your kids’ favorite shows or the big game. Plug-and-play capability, via standard USB 2.0 or eSATA connection, makes setup easy while the stylish design fits seamlessly into entertainment centers and complements the look of existing A/V equipment.
“Today’s consumers are constantly demanding more storage for high-definition video and high-fidelity audio – and they want it as part of their home entertainment system,” said Patrick King, senior vice president of Seagate’s Consumer Solutions Division. “We believe that the Seagate Showcase product line will take its place alongside the receiver, speaker system and television as a must-have component for the entertainment center. We are pleased to be working with Motorola to enable an enjoyable consumer experience.”
“As consumer video consumption continues to increase at exponential rates, Motorola strives to provide flexible and cost-effective solutions” commented Larry Robinson, vice president, Set Top Product Management at Motorola. “By demonstrating interoperability with the Seagate Showcase storage solution we are offering consumers additional compelling storage options for their entertainment content.” The new Showcase family will feature Seagate’s recently announced Pipeline HD™ Series of hard drives purpose-built for DVRs. Seagate Pipeline HD™ Series hard drives are the gold standard in high definition performance and capacity with bedroom-quiet acoustics, low power operation and the ability to support up to 12 simultaneous HD streams. The drives are Windows Vista Certified, making them an ideal solution for Home Media Centers.
Seagate is working with Motorola, the leader in digital set-tops with over 73 million shipped, to deliver external storage solutions for DVRs. By connecting a Seagate Showcase product with its included eSATA cable, the capacity of these DVRs can instantly be increased – eliminating the need to delete your favorite movies or shows. The 1TB Seagate Showcase drive can be seen exclusively in the Motorola booth # 1405 during The Cable Show ‘08 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
The DCH3416 is an all-digital, DVR Host set-top supporting HDTV, SDTV and data with advanced features and ample recording capacity.
As part of Motorola's DCH family of CableCARD ready set-tops, the DCH3416 supports a wide range of current and future interactive applications running on Motorola's existing DCT legacy APIs or OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP™). When configured with the MoCA™ home-networking option, DCH set-tops can also serve as multimedia hubs or clients.
- M-Card (Multi-stream CableCARD) Host support for conditional access
- Digital Video Recording (DVR) with support for dual recording and watch-and-record functionality
- 160GB hard drive with shock mounting and fan
- Compatible with Motorola DCT legacy APIs
- Standard definition (SD), enhanced definition (ED), and high definition (HD) MPEG-2 video support with output scaled to 480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i
- Dual 54 to 864 MHz video tuners
- Digital video (64 QAM/256 QAM)
- Video scaling (Picture-in-Graphics)
- Picture-in-Picture
- Accelerated graphics
- Motion-adaptive de-interlacing
- Dolby™ Digital 5.1 and PCM audio
- 16MB Flash (standard)
- 128MB DRAM total (standard)
- DOCSIS® 2.0 cable modem with support for DSG
- RF out-of-band (OOB) data transmitter/receiver
- On-screen diagnostics
- Macrovision™, HDCP, 5C DTCP, and CGMS-A content protection schemes on the respective interfaces
- Full-featured front panel display and controls
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