Thank you very much Steve. This is awesome!!!
For sure my boss will love me!!!
Steve Adeff writes:
Tell them the FCC mandates all HDTV capable cable boxes must have working
Firewire output as of April of 2004.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/fcc-requires-firewire-on-all-cable-boxes-015708.php
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-225A1.pdf
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-238850A1.pdf
and he'll call up the FCC Enforcement Bureau
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/
Steve
On Monday 28 November 2005 15:29, Neil wrote:
Hi Steve,
Thank you very much for the info. Let's take this scenario: My boss calls
COX and they turned down my boss's request. They won't enable the firewire.
What should he tell? Is there any document that my boss can mention w/c
will force the guys to enable it?
Steve Adeff writes:
> On Monday 28 November 2005 13:19, Neil wrote:
>> I would like to help my boss in California. He told me that he's with
>> cox. He also told me that he tried using the firewire output port and he
>> said, that he can't get it to work. I don't know what software he used.
>> I'm sure that he used Microsoft Windows. Is there a way to change on the
>> set top box to enable firewire transmission?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neil
>
> no.
>
> and yes. call the cable company and tell them to turn it on, they have
> to. doesn't mean you'll get any channels over it through the computer
> though.
>
> if he runs windows tell him to search the AVS Forum as a lot of winbloze
> users are there and there are some good discussions on how to get
> firewire to work.
>
> do you know what box he has? if its a Motorola DCT series tell him to
> turn the box off and hit the select button on the remote immediately,
> this will give him the service menu, one of the menu options, d11
> maybe(?), shows whether firewire is enabled. another, d11 maybe(?), shows
> the 5C level of the channel the tuner was on when you turned off the
> power.
>
> Steve
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