Motorola introduces innovative new set-tops

Motorola redefined the
digital video recorder (DVR) as a multimedia hub that lets consumers access and
share video recordings, video-on-demand (VOD) content, pictures and music in and
around the home with the introduction of the new Motorola QIP family of
products.

The new Motorola QIP6416
is a high-definition (HD) capable, dual-tuner DVR with watch-and-record
capability; the Motorola QIP6200 is a single-HD tuner set-top; and the Motorola
QIP2500 is a single-tuner standard-definition model.

These three new Motorola
set-tops are the first to include built-in home media networking capabilities.
Using a technology known as MoCA (short for Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance),
the Motorola QIP set-tops can create a multimedia network using the existing
coaxial cable already found in the walls of a consumer's home. This network is
capable of transporting high-definition video, high-quality digital voice, and
high-speed data to televisions, DVR, game consoles, wireless access points, and
home computers.

The products are also
unique because they support two different network architectures within the same
device, providing service providers with a choice in way they can deliver
digital video services into the home: The first supported is the traditional
quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) method commonly used today by cable
operators, which sends video information to the home over radio frequencies. The
second is the newer, emerging video-over-IP method, which delivers video to the
home using packets of data.

Verizon Communications is the first Motorola customer to
offer QIP series set-tops, as part of the Verizon FiOS TV service now available
in parts of Texas, Virginia and Florida. In an agreement previously announced,
Motorola is providing video network infrastructure and video consumer premises
equipment related to Verizon's launch of video services on the company's new
fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. Verizon uses QAM to deliver scheduled
programming and IP to deliver on-demand video to FiOS TV customers.