[mythtv-users] Firewire no longer required on HD STBs

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Ivan Kowalenko
<kichigaimentat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, few people own hardware that speaks to their cable boxes via FireWire too. But it's one of those build-it-and-they-will-come situations.

The whole point of the FCC mandate for firewire on cable boxes was a
build-it-and-they-will-come situation to encourage television
manufacturers to produce firewire enabled televisions.  The mandate
went into effect on April 1, 2004, and yet TVs with firewire are still
almost nonexistant.  They built it, but no one came.

Eric