[mythtv-users] Disj Network or Direct TV?

[George Mari]

On 07/20/2010 09:52 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 08:44:33 am jedi wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:44:46PM -0600, John P Poet wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:13 PM, George Mari
>>> <george_mythusers at mari1938.org>  wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> I was using an older, H20 settop box with MythTV, but it started to get
>>>> flaky.  DirecTV came out and replaced it with their latest settop box,
>>>> model number H24, I believe.  Much smaller than the H20s and H21s, and
>>>> a major difference for me is that they have no S-video output - only
>>>> composite for standard def, along with HDMI and component for the HD
>>>> outputs.  Because I was really wanting to capture 480i over the
>>>> S-video, I ended up swapping that H24 settop box with an H21 I had in
>>>> another room.  (The H21 has S-video output.)
>>>
>>> That is one of the difference between Directv and DISH.  My sister has
>>> DISH and her ancient vip622 died.  Called up DISH and they are going
>>> to send her a refurbished vip622.  I asked them why they were not
>>
>>      Back in the day, I had a lot of trouble dealing with Dish boxes
>> and Tivo. The Dish boxes would leave you with a "dialog box" if you
>> tuned into a bogus channel. So if you tried to tune in HBO but weren't
>> subscribed to it, your receiver would be stuck until you manually went
>> in and hit the right button on the remote.
>>
>>      I had so many bogus and missed recordings that way.
>>
>>      Dunno if they fixed that or not. That still sticks out in mind though
>> and always comes up whenever I contemplate the possibility of switching.
>
> I don't like the fact that the DISH boxes "Call Home" each night, leaving them in a "press select to continue" condition.
> You can change the time when this happens, but you can't stop it completely.
>
> So I just send a select code before each channel change, seems to be working, but it really shouldn't be necessary.
>
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This is something that in my mind seems to make the DirecTV boxes more 
MythTV-friendly.  I've never seen any of these types of situations in 
the 5 years or so I've using DirecTV with MythTV.  They're very 
"automation" friendly, in that regard.