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Mike
On 10/30/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
> Michael Tiller wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in finding a digital cable receiver that will allow me
>> to stream (via firewire) directly to my MythTV box. I just called
>> WOW and they said that they provide Scientific Atlanta 3100/3200
>> boxes. They seemed somewhat vague about *exactly* what they
>> provided. If I get really serious, I'll try to pin them down, but
>> that isn't my question...
>>
>> I notice that people talk about 3250's as having firewire ports.
>> But, what the guy from WOW said was that they had to license these
>> ports in order to use them and that WOW does not license them. The
>> bottom line (at least according to him) is that there is no way to
>> use a firewire port on a receiver even if your receiver has such a port.
>>
>> Does this sound right? Anybody with WOW (ideally in SE Michigan :-)
>> care to comment?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch if you can confirm (or even better, refute) this
>> information.
>
> The people @ WOW are woefully wrong. Search this list at
> gossamer-threads (google search mythtv & gossamer-threads) for FCC and
> Firewire, youll find posts linking to the FCCs requirement of firewire
> ports as of July '04.
Perhaps wrong about not enabling the ports, but they are right about the
ports not working unless they enable them. ;)
Mike
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