[mythtv-users] HD-PVR component video

Sebastien Astie sastie at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 01:31:49 UTC 2008


Just as a correction,
"voi la" is one word : voila :)


On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net>
wrote:

> On 6/4/2008 10:51 PM Bob Sully said the following:
> >> Message: 19
> >> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:44:59 -0400
> >> From: steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD-PVR component video
> >> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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> >> Greg wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> | |
> >> | | Then you call and tell them your TV only has component inputs and
> >> | | demand a box that you can use with your TV. They have to comply.
> >> |
> >> |
> >> | I wonder if thats the same "comply" law that Time warner completely
> >> | ignores..... at least in my area of upstate NY.  Ive repeatedly asked
> >> | for an hd box that has a firewire port enabled..... they keep telling
> me
> >> | "that functionality is not available"  I never heard a word back from
> >> | the FCC after I complained to them either.
> >> |
> >> |
> >>
> >> |>
> >>
> >> | I live in Upstate NY...Saratoga Springs...I have fire wire on my SA
> >> | 4250...I just asked for it....
> >>
> >>
> >> I messed with mine, and found that the ports were off.  I called the
> >> local office in norwich, and the first person I spoke to after I asked
> >> if they could turn firewire on my hd box on, she transferred me to tech
> >> support.  tech support 800# asked me what kind if internet connection I
> >> had...... uhh... I told them it had nothing to do with my internet
> >> connection.  then she asked me what firewire was, I told her IEEE1394,
> >> she never heard of it  "we dont use any ports on the boxes except hdmi,
> >> component, or cable"  was her answer.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hmmm....I'm no big fan of Time-Warner Cable (or any other cable company,
> > for that matter), but I have to admit that I didn't have any problems
> > getting them to enable Firewire on my DCT-6200s.  I had to go up to a
> > second-level tech support person, but when I requested that they turn it
> > on, and mentioned that the FCC has mandated that it be available, she
> just
> > "flipped the switch" (figuratively?) and reset my connection...voila -
> >
>
> Thanks for spelling that correctly.  It's a pet peeve of mine and I'm
> not even French.  :)  voi la (translates roughly as "there you go") is a
> French term.  I don't know how many times I hear my fellow Americans use
> the term "wa la".  Anyway...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Drew
>
>
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