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Jul. 14, 2002



Scientific Atlanta to use Moxi

By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

One of the nation's leading television set-top box manufacturers has licensed the revolutionary Moxi's technology, which adds interactive TV features like digital recording and music storage to the little black boxes.

The ``Moxi box'' created a sensation earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is designed to distribute music and movies anywhere throughout the home -- be it television set-top boxes, stereos and PCs.

In March, the Palo Alto company was acquired by Digeo, an interactive TV company chaired by Paul Allen.

Digeo's chief executive, Jim Billmaier, said the deal with set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta -- together with an earlier announcement with Motorola -- creates a national platform upon which to deploy interactive television services.

Senior analyst Sean Badding of The Carmel Group said that while Digeo-Moxi has gained widespread media attention because of its celebrated backers, he predicts it will ultimately lose out in the interactive marketplace to its little-known competitor, Metabyte Networks.