Last I knew, both Dish and DirecTV did not have firewire support on any of their boxes. You can get it added by a 3rd party company if you are desperate for it, but it is quite expensive and still problematic to implement.
<font size="-1"><a href="http://169time.com/">http://169time.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.nextcomwireless.com/r5000/home.htm">http://www.nextcomwireless.com/r5000/home.htm</a> are two of the sites that do the mods if you are interested. Do a search on them in the mailing list if you want to find out more. They've been discussed at great length here already.
<br><br>For now, most people will agree that it either isn't worth it to try HDTV on satellite with Myth or that the implementation is flaky at best. I think people are having a lot better luck with cable companies right now. (My understanding is that the FCC mandate for Firewire and cablecards doesn't apply to satellite, just cable, so it could be quite some time until us satellite users get good HDTV support.)
<br></font><br>Most of the DirecTV receivers can be controlled by a serial port on them instead of using an IR blaster. I *THINK* some Dish Receivers are the same, but I've never been a Dish Customer, so I can't say for sure. That could be where the confusion is coming from. There is some information on setting up an IR Blaster with Dish Network on the wiki (
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LIRC">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LIRC</a>). Hopefully a Dish User will chime in here with more info.<br><br>Hopefully this helps some.<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Cole Brodine
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