Multi-room High Definition DVR

October 7th, 2007

After three weekends of travelling you would think I would be tired and in bed. Not me. I am up worried about finding a multi-room dvr solution for our two high def televisions.

We currently have two 32″ LCD displays. One is in our living room, and one is on the wall in our bedroom. I have an Xbox 360 and a Blu-Ray (PS3) downstairs along with a high-def DVR downstairs and a normal high-def set top box upstairs. Problem is, I want to play Xbox, and Monica wants to watch her recorded “stories.”

My ideal solution is a media server recording all the content, serving photos, music, podcasts, movies etc. Trouble is, there are products out there that will do all that with standard def TV, but nothing exists for high-def tv.

  • I would be fairly satisfied with a Windows Media Center PC streaming to two Xbox 360s, but in order to get high-def TV you need a cable card, and apparently that is next to impossible to get running on your own
  • I would be really satisfied with two Tivos, but the high-def models apparently do not support multi-room viewing
  • Moxi sounds promising, but is not available through Comcast or their Pittsburgh area competitors
  • Verizon has a multi-room DVR for its Fios service, but it won’t stream high-def
  • There are many open source projects out there, but most won’t do a remote or streamed version of the interface to a smaller remote box, and none of them work with cable, only over the air high-def

This is something that has really been annoying me lately.

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