Comcast 'AnyRoom DVR' deploying MoCA--gave up waiting on G.hn

According to Lightreading, North America's largest service provider, Comcast, is deploying massively their "AnyRoom DVR" solution. Mostly this is to be able to keep-up with the Jones (i.e. DirecTV, Verizon, and even AT&T).

Entropic got a big lift as it is their "MoCA chips that power the boxes the MSO's using for the multi-room DVR offering".

HAN Fan thinks that many observers were surprised Comcast did not go with G.hn, the United Nations' me-to  standard. Maybe it was the MoCA trash talk that scared Comcast away from G.hn. Or maybe while Comcast was politely waiting since 2008 for a G.hn chip they just gave up waiting in 2010.

DirecTV explores Wi-Fi, G.hn networks and choosed MoCA

Rick Merritt over at the EE Times is reporting that "DirecTV is testing versions of Wi-Fi and aims to test wired links based on the ITU G.hn standard".

DirectTV's VP of set top engineering Henry Derovanessian is quoted saying:

"Wireless and G.hn are very much in their infancy and in R&D stages, and don't know when we'd be ready to talk about productization," he added. 

"I hear it will be any day we'll get our hands on [G.hn samples], but I haven't seen them yet and we want to see them"

If Henry is expecting them G.hn samples from CopperGate soon, he should ask CopperGate where is the HomePlug AV chip they bought practically finished form Connexant two years ago. Or DS2's 400Mbps UPA chip fro around the same time period.