Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder review

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First off let’s start with a detailed description of what the product actually is from the manufacturer themselves:

Moxi is trying to fill the void in the market by creating a product that will do home computer content over the air TV content cable TV content and make it all accessible with the one remote which in theory sounds awesome!

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The Moxi three contains a very large 500 GB hard drive and can record up to 75 hours of HD content or 300 hours of standard definition content, but this unit is expandable up to hours if you upgrade to the external 6 TB external drive. (Now I have to interject here and maybe I’m showing my age, but I can remember when we got our first Packard Bell computer and had a 1.19 GB hard drive and at the time it was unbelievable how much space there was on the hard drive and now we’re talking about 6 TB not being enough to hold all their purchase TV shows. Just a quick editorial on the ridiculousness of all this technology!)

Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder Picture

Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder

Now for a quick list of the key features inside the Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder:

  • three high-definition TV tuners
  • expandable to 6 TB hard drive
  • award-winning menu with HD graphics
  • traditional grid programming guide available
  • backlit remote control
  • supports cable cards so there’s no need for a cable box

the Moxi media center dvr is a high-quality product that fills a market need by offering a good guide interface which is sorely lacking in other units of the same price point, and the manufacturer will tell you that the remote control is awesome and easy to use. I found some reviews to the contrary but most people tend to agree that this remote control is easy-to-use and that the guide interface is also easy to use, and even looks good.

Inside Scoop about this HD DVR Recorder

 

This Moxi  HD device is a high-quality build that looks like it was created specifically to perform its job very well. These new digital media recorders have many features that you can utilize for better viewing experience. For example the Moxi  hd media center allows for multi-room sharing if you purchased the Moxie mates. Like other digital media recorders this one allows you to rewind pause fast forward live TV.

Here’s a compilation of some of the good and bad reviews but I found about the Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder:

the  Moxi  mate that I use for additional rooms is sort of slow and it is definitely slower than the main unit but it’s not that bad. There is a time delay between when the picture shows up when you’re switching channels. Not a big deal but it’s worth mentioning that this is kind of hinder the enjoyment of having a multi room video system. However a good point about the Moxie made is that you do not need to buy another 500 all unit the mate is only 200 bucks.

Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder accessories pics

Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder accessories

 

The main Moxi 3 unit has a lot of features and interface is great setting up a simple and requires only one M card from your cable provider very simple to set up very easy to use and I think probably the best feature of this unit is the user interface and menu system. I’ve read several DVR recorder reviews and many of them list the Moxi three as one of their favorites! We all know when it comes to digital product reviews you have to take the good with the bad because people have their own opinions in the case of the Moxi 3-Tuner 500GB HD Digital Recorder, more than 85% of the reviews I found are favorable which is always a good sign.

Some Positive Points

This HDTV recorder is a sleek good-looking easy-to-use device that you should seriously consider purchasing if you’re in the market for an over the air DVR. I know it seems like this is been all positive so far so now it’s time to add some less favorable opinions into the mix the can get a well-rounded idea of what this product is really about.

 

This digital video recorder TV device had a few issues with the HDMI Jack according to a couple of customers. Although most did not cite a problem there were few that mentioned the HDMI functionality and put themselves were buggy.

Also I read a few reviews that claim that the Cox cable card is not compatible with this unit so if Cox is your primary provider you may want to put in a phone call to Cox just to find out if in fact this issue is true because you don’t want to spend hours screwing around cable cards I know I don’t. I found one review that even said that all in all this is just an overpriced DVR that you could get one from the cable company for much cheaper. Now this may be true but it seems to me that that’s coming from someone who’s frustrated with the product.

All in all from what I could find as far as a standpoint, this device is a high quality HDTV recorder with lots of positive hard drive recorder reviews all over the Internet. It is to have a really good user interface and several glowing reviews from customers with a few dissatisfied customer thrown in in general complaining about HDMI issues and cable card compatibility issues which are nothing new to anyone in this electronics space. All in all if you’re in the market for a good digital TV recorder and content management interface the Moxi 3 just may be what you’re looking for!

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February 2, 2012

Diane Bouska @ 5:47 pm #

Hi there. the Moxi website says specifically this unit does NOT have over the air tuners! So you might as well delete this page!

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