[mythtv-users] Firewire unstable.

[Aaron Russell]

The pvr 150 was orginally set to take analog form the cable box before i
started using firewire. I was looking at the DCR-2650 from hauppauge as a
replacement for my cable box. Is that worth it?

I have another question about these solutions. Am i restricted by the same
5c encryption i find on firewire?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Aaron Russell <aaron at therussells.me>
>> wrote:
>> > 3. Should i try to get fios to give me a new cable box and hope the new
>> one
>> > is
>> > better?
>>
>> This is probably your best bet, but it's really a shot in the dark.  I
>> had a lot of trouble recording via firewire with Comcast and a
>> DCH-3200.  I switched to Verizon for a few months and had better luck
>> with their box, but switched back to Comcast for other reasons and
>> ended up with an identical looking DCH-3200, but this one seemed to
>> work fine without the problem I'd had before.
>>
>> > 4. I also have a pvr150 in the mythtv but i believe its dying because i
>> get
>> > really crappy quality from it. The cable box is only 10% of my
>> recording so
>> > what
>> > are my other option. I dont want to spend much because its such a small
>> > amount
>> > of recordings.
>>
>> Understood.  It does cost some more money, but I can tell you that the
>> cable card solutions are all much more stable and reliable than
>> firewire.  If you can find the budget for a HD Homerun Prime or Ceton
>> InfiniTV it takes all the voodoo out of the process of getting mythtv
>> to record encrypted cable.
>>
>> Eric
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>
> The cause of your woes may not even be the hardware but rather the
> software/firmware on the cable box.  Comcast pushed an update a few months
> ago, and I lost all Firewire capability.  The good thing was that I
> switched to an InfiniTV 4 a few weeks prior.  The Firewire was barely being
> used, but changing channels for my HDPVR.  If you are able to eliminate a
> cable box rental, than a CableCard solution may pay for itself.  A HDHR
> Prime or InfiniTV 4 PCIe/USB all have a street price of under $200, and
> continue to fall in price.
>
> As I have said many times, I love my InfiniTV 4 PCIe.  Thanks to Ron
> Frazier's source patch, it is the most reliable tuner I have ever used.
>  Now if I could only figure out my LiveTV ringbuffer timeout problem, I
> would buy a second InfiniTV 4 and stop renting two cable boxes.
>
> What is your PVR150 being used for?  Is it just another tuner from another
> cable box or analog cable?  If so, all the CableCard solutions would save
> you from having to replace the PVR150.  If it is used for premiums, then
> the CableCard solutions will not help.
>
> -Tom
>
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