After reading this article, there is yet another company to keep Tivo nervous at night is a company called Digeo, that is funded by Paul Allen. It’s currently rolling out a new product called the Moxi Broadband Media Center that acts as an HDTV PVR, HDTV receiver, set top box, and interactive television. In Laurence, they are partnering with cable operator, Sunflower Broadband. At $795 and a $7.95 monthly subscription fee, it’s a pretty good deal for those Kansans that can get it, and it has some really interesting features.

This intrigued me:

“This is really an SUV, a powerhouse,” Knorr said. “It does everything.”

It will have some features not offered by TiVo, such as a scrolling ticker at the bottom of a screen. Knorr explained that users would be able to personalize the ticker by putting running sports scores, or stock market quotes or even news feeds on the ticker. Clicking on the ticker with your remote brings up more information.

“Customers with a Moxi box can control that on any channel they want,” Knorr said. “It’s kind of a hybrid between the Internet and TV.”

The boxes also will integrate into other services, such as pay-per-view and video-on-demand.

The ticker sounds pretty useful if your wife is watching “must see” TV and you want to keep track of the ball game.

There’s more. Digeo sells a $79 Moxi Mate (PDF link), which sounds like a feminine hygiene product, but is really an extender kit which allows you to control and watch shows from another television. It also sells something that has been needed on Tivo for years; a user an expansion bay called Moxi Plus (PDF Link) that makes it possible for users to easily add additional hard drive space, media readers like flash, or even a DVD recorder.

There is no telling how well the product all works from a web page, but from what I’ve seen so far, it sounds like a winner.