Subscribers of the cloud-based DVR service can access their video timelines and create and share video clips from their iPads.

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From what we can tell, it's basically a PC-based DVR (running on XP Home, rather than Media Center) that ships with a base unit and two remote boxes that can be connected via Ethernet.

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As it stands, Comcast already offers a pretty standard MoCA-based AnyRoom DVR setup, it's rolled out the Pace-built X1 as its first next-gen DVR in some areas, and is dabbling in IP crossover with the AnyPlay transcoder.

ENGADGET: Humax's take on an IP-connected TV box for Comcast passes through the FCC

Look, Moblin and MIDs and USB 3.0 are all well and good, but the real highlight of IDF is hiding in plain sight: it's Intel's CE 3100 Media Processor-based Tru2way DVR server, which has three digital cable tuners that can be streamed over a regular gigabit Ethernet or MoCA to any number of clients, ranging from other 3100-based set-top boxes to DLNA devices like laptops and even the PS3.

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As reported by Light Reading, Cisco, Humax, Pace, Technicolor and others are working on hardware for a new multiroom setup based on a central gateway (or maybe a Cablevision-style network DVR) that streams video to IP-connected extenders called the XI3.

ENGADGET: Humax's take on an IP-connected TV box for Comcast passes through the FCC