<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I'm having trouble tuning some channels. I've been trying to fine-tune a lot of them, but with at least 70 channels, it's quite a tedious and annoying task. I'm looking into possible solutions. At the moment, I'm using analog cable connected to a PVR-150. At the moment, the most logical option is to get a digital cable box (we have a digital cable service for the other two TVs in the house), and just connect it to the PVR-150 through S-Video, and using either the IR-Blaster in the PVR-150, a serial IR-blaster, or a direct serial connection, to work the digital cable box.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I rather dislike working with LIRC. It's always rubbed me the wrong way. and I've always considered the possibility of getting a High-Def cable box, and using the FireWire port on it to record the data. But I'm using an XBox as a Front-End, and we only have Standard Definition televisions. The back-end is a low powered Celeron 650 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. Is there a way to have a high-def cable box scale down to something like 480p, that the XBox could be able to play this back? Or am I just better off messing with LIRC and learning the lingo?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, I'd be willing to settle for letting MythTV just simply do automatic fine-tuning adjustments, like a cable-ready TV sets do. I've heard this system is available, but I've been as yet unable to find it. I'm running KnoppMyth R5A30.</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><U><I>Duct Tape Tip No. 118:</I></U></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><I><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>Protect tip of tongue so you </I>can<I> lick cold flag poles in the winter without risk.</I></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>--<I>The Duct Tape Book</I> by Jim and Tim</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>