<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 7:11 PM, William Munson <<a href="mailto:w.munson@comcast.net">w.munson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Larry K wrote:<br>> Well, that would be great if I could do that. How can I tell what<br>> channels will be available to the HDRD, before I go buy one?<br>><br></div>That is the rub with the HDHR, you cannot even tell what channels you
<br>are receiving as there is no mapping of qam transport channels to actual<br>channels. In fact you will have to manually figure out what each channel<br>is and then manually enter the data into the database and then will have
<br>to look up what the xmltvid number is for that channel. I would strongly<br>recommend that you spend the time getting a firewire stb set up.<br>Although quirky its far far easier than setting up a hdhr. Here in<br>Florida the cable company (comcast) has a nasty habit of moving channels
<br>around every few weeks which is completely transparent when using a stb<br>but will cause you large amounts of frustration when all of a sudden you<br>start recording garbage or nothing at all.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I disagree with your opinion of how easy it is to set up a firewire STB. I have an SA3250HD that I spent weeks troubleshooting before giving up. One minute it would work, the next it wouldn't. It took days to find a script that would even change the channels on the thing. Actually recording and viewing content over firewire was next to impoossible. One person would say that I needed to reset the firewire bus but wouldn't explain how to do it. Another person suggested that I reboot the cable box fifty times a day. General consensus seems to be that firewire is handled much better in SVN, but I don't feel comfortable using releases beyond what's listed as stable. I'
<br><br>I've ordered an HDHomerun which should be here any day, so we'll see if I still have the same opinion. :-)<br></div></div><br>