[mythtv-users] Digital TV question

[Mark J. Small]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 10:55, Derek Meek wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> >On 6/27/06, Derek Meek <thekazan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>A) you digital cable company should continue sending the analog channels
> >>across the cable
> >>B) to get your digital cable channels on mythTV you have to slave your
> >>cable box
> >>
> >>may $DIETY save your $SUPERNATURAL_PRESENCE if you get a Motorola
> >>DCT2000 like i did
> >
> >I've got a DCT2000 box, and while mine doesn't have svideo output
> >(what the f- is wrong with comcast?), it works great and tunes
> >perfectly over the serial port. It even has a digital coax output for
> >sound, which I can't use, but I find interesting given the svideo
> >situation.
> >
> >Why won't Hauppauge just make a PVR card with spdif input?!
>
> mine doesn't have a serial port so i have to use IR - DCT2000s have
> SEVERE problems with IR

I've worked out all of my problems with IR on my 2 DCT2000s.  It really helped 
to nice the channel change scripts so that the 0.7 second delay between sends 
didn't stretch out to 4 seconds under heavy system load.  I still get a few 
bad channel changes, but I'd say its way under 1%

It really helps to tweak your channel changing.  I use to miss a lot of 
recordings due to bad channel changes, especially at certain times of day.  
Almost never now.

Mark