On 2/21/07, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Digital cable or satellite can require more tweaking with MythTV than I
> was willing to do. IR output sounds like a pain.
Myth does support firewire ripping from a few cable and satellite settop
boxes. No IR blasting, down scaling or other quirks. It's also not
widely known that cable and satellite companies, by law, must give you a
firewire enabled box if you ask for one. Some companies happily hand
them over and some you have to fax sections of the fcc mandate and
threaten to turn them into the fcc before they'll give you one. Some
come with firewire disabled and you have to read online how to enable
them. Or you can pay a few companies to add firewire to them, but
that's a little extreme to me.
Brandon, can you elaborate on this a bit? I didn't know that cable &
satellite providers could be compelled to do much of anything. Are
there additional costs?
What's the reasoning behind having a firewire-enabled receiver?
As one who gets most of his publicly broadcast tv shows via BitTorrent
downloads, I'm unfamiliar with many of these issues.
--
Lars
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