Motorola DCT6412 Dual Tuner Review

The Motorola DCT6412 is a dual tuner DVR with a High Definition TV decoder. It has been approx. 1 year since the Motorola DCT6412 was released onto the. Motorola is a well established producer of DVRs and the Motorola DCT6412 is still a reasonable DVR player despite its age.

The Motorola DCT6412 comes with standard features such as simple programming options, interactive program guides, video on demand, and commercial free music. The ability to play high definition TV means that a great picture quality is experienced.

It has an instant replay feature so you can review what you were just previously watching and you can also pause a live program at any moment and continue where you left off. Being a dual tuner you can watch a live program while recording or record two programs simultaneously.

The Motorola DCT6412 comes with a 120 GB hard drive which provides approx. 90 hours of standard quality TV and up to 20 hours of high definition television. To use this set top box you must be a subscriber to digital cable service. One of the downsides of the Motorola DCT6412 is that it has a noisy fan, however with a decent amount of functions and dual tuner capability it makes a great inexpensive DVR solution for cable subscribers.