<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Mike Angstadt wrote:<br><br>><br>> Well, I'm also in Chicago with Comcast, and my box has an active<br>> serial port. Obviously, I don't know how representative this is of<br>> their other boxes in the area, but just thought I'd mention. So
<br>> you may want to check that out first to save yourself the trouble<br>> of using an IR blaster at all.<br>><br><br>Was it active when you got it or did you have to get them to activate<br>the port ?? Sometimes telling them you have a TiVo will get them to
<br>activate it, you really don't want to go into what Myth is with a<br>Cable Company CSR :-)<br><br>BTW - I see the TiVo vs. Echostar lawsuit starts being heard today.</blockquote><div><br>
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Mine was just active when I got it. I had it hooked up to my
computer and was changing channels long before I ever even realized
that apparently it isn't activated a lot of the time :)<br>
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-Mike<br>
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