[mythtv-users] Firewire no longer required on HD STBs
Patrick Ouellette
pat at flying-gecko.net
Wed Jun 30 19:48:39 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:40:04PM -0500, Ben Kamen wrote:
>
> Right.
>
> Can you imagine the headaches when a user hooks up his shiny new TV to firewire only to not have it work.
>
> Calling the cable co --> "Sounds like a problem with your TV"
> Calling the TV maker --> "That's a problem with the output of the cable box"
>
> AWESOME! The consumer -- F'd over again.
>
Actually it's more like:
Cable Co: Is the firewire output connected to a digital recorder
Customer: No, it's connected to the TV
Cable Co: We don't support that configuration
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