Digeo's $799 Moxi HD DVR gets a significant update today with new broadband and home-networking features added in spades. Happily among them is the incorporation of DLNA certification, allowing the box to play back media content from your computer (check out our DLNA primer here). Hand in hand with that is the inclusion of the PlayOn media server, normally a $40 value, allowing you to stream Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, ESPN, CNN and more to your TV (like Boxee, PlayOn's software works around Hulu's fear and loathing of all things non-Hulu).

Additional new features to the cable-ready set-top box are a web browser dubbed MoxiNet for finding video content anywhere on the net (which solves the hardware-solution IPTV problem), Flickr and Rhapsody integration, and some support for home automation with the ability to control Z-Wave enabled devices.

Although the $799 pricetag for a digital video recording unit seems steep, it's offset by having no monthly subscription fees like main competitor TiVo's DVRs. If you have the capital to invest up front and are in the market for an HD DVR, Digeo's offering is not really a bad deal over the life of the product. Plus, a forthcoming promised feature is Moxi Mate, a smaller device allowing you to watch Moxi content on another TV in the home without incurring another subscription fee as you would with TiVo; sadly there's no word on when that will be available yet, though.

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