On April 8, 2005 03:59 pm, Michael Haan wrote: > Trying to sort through the idiocy of my local cable company Com****. > I've got an HDTV on the way and want to use the firwire out of the > Motorola box. Unfortunately, my local office says it only provides > the SA3100. Iknow other Com**** offices provide the Motorola box, > just not mine. The person I spoke to at Com**** told me that I > couldn't use the Motorola box because it won't work. Does any of this > make sense? Can I just go to a different office and get the Motorola > box? Are there any similar solutions for the SA box? Will the cable > companies ever get over their monopoly, emerge from the mid-seventies > and start providing actual customer service? > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
They aren't lying to you. The Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta boxes are completely incompatible. They need different hardware on the head-end. Actually, people who have tried them both (on different systems) generally prefer Scientific Atlanta. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
