[mythtv-users] Digital Cable

[Ray Olszewski]

At 01:35 PM 2/26/2004 -0500, John F. DeLuca wrote:
[...]

>True.....IR Blaster is neither best nor only option if you have an active 
>serial port on
>your cable box.  Sadly, my cable box does not fall into that category so 
>*my* best and
>only option to view digital cable channels with my Myth or Tivo is via IR 
>Blaster

Just curious ... does your cable box entirely lack a serial port or is it 
present but not "active"? I ask because it took me quite a bit of work to 
confirm that mine was active ... only the *very* latest version of Jim 
Paris' C program, for example, works with it. I was about ready to give up 
until I discovered a neighbor had his port working with his TiVo. (A lot of 
my blundering around is reflected on a recent thread I started on this list 
... Ian was quite patient and helpful there.)

Given the general unhelpfulness of cable providers with respect to 
information about this interface, I've wondered how many people give up on 
it too soon.