Scientific-Atlanta Inc. was quick to capitalize on the electronics bonanza at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, debuting its first- ever multi-room digital video recorder system and announcing that Time Warner Cable will deploy it in its Minneapolis division.

Based on the Explorer 8300 series DVRs, the MR-DVR uses coax in the home to simultaneously access three additional sets that have attached non-DVR S-A boxes.

S-A has offered DVR set-tops since 2002, but the addition of multi-room capability is an important step, according to Michael Harney, S-A's corporate senior vice president and president of Subscriber Networks . The 8300 MR-DVR has been in trials up to now, and this is the first major deployment.

"With Scientific-Atlanta's Multi-Room DVR solution, we have made it incredibly easy for our customer's subscribers to watch their DVR recorded content throughout the home," he said, in a release. "For operators that deploy, market, and bundle Multi-Room DVR service in their service packages, they are setting the stage as the provider in the marketplace for the connected home."

S-A also unveiled a new stand-alone media terminal adapter. Aimed at voice-over-IP telephony service, the stand-alone MTA converts a telephone's analog voice signals to digital IP data for delivery via a cable or digital subscriber line modem.