Unlocking door to homes of tomorrow

The latest round in the home entertainment wars was kicked off by Steve Perlman’s start-up company, Moxi Digital. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month, Moxi unveiled the Media Centre (MC): “a combination digital set-top box, video and music jukebox, media server, and internet gateway and firewall”, says the company. It will play your DVD movies, CDs and MP3 music files. It will record broadcast TV, just like a TiVo personal video recorder (PVR).

And licenses permitting, it will stream multimedia to any personal computer or TV set in your home. It is, according to Forrester Research’s principal media and entertainment analyst Josh Bernoff, “the first true entertainment gateway”. Guardian UK