[mythtv-users] Re: Motorola DCT6200, Comcast, Dual Tuners?

Joe Votour joevph at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 26 17:51:25 UTC 2005


I don't have one of these boxes, but I work in the
industry (and no, not for Motorola).

The data tuner is for sending and receiving messages
from the headend system.  This would consist of things
like guide data, allowing you to order PPV, and such.

-- Joe

--- Michael Eldridge <meldridge at mac.com> wrote:
> Check out the Motorola product pages.
> 
>
http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/dct6200/
> 
> http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/dct6412.asp
> 
> Under Performance Features for the 6200 it says "Two
> 54 - 860 MHz tuners"
> 
> For the 6412 it says "Three 54-860 MHz tuners (two
> video, one data)"
> 
> I was unaware that the 6200 had two tuners. I have a
> 6200 and am now also wondering about using two tuner
> functionality. I'm currently capturing via FireWire.
> Anyone know what the data tuner of the 6412 is all
> about?
> 
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 7:43 AM,
> mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
> It occurred to me that the spec sheets for the
> DCT6200 specify that it
> has two tuners internally, so my question is this:
> Are they both
> accessible from myth? IE, will one 6200 get me 2
> tunable inputs for
> myth?
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