<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jeff Clark <<a href="mailto:jeff@vacantcanvas.com">jeff@vacantcanvas.com</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;">
I thought I could get a bunch of SD channels,<br>
but I'm on a different Comcast network than the guy who said he could<br>
get all of them without the box. In my area, all you can get is the<br>
OTA channels and some religious channel.<br>
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I've just come to terms with the fact that I need to go through the<br>
box until I move and get on a decent cable provider. :(<br>
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I'm just trying to find out how to do that efficiently now...</blockquote><div><br>I don't think SD digital cable boxes come with firewire, so the only options for channel changing are serial or ir blaster.<br><br>
In my area comcast technicians will not install (and do not even have access to) boxes with a serial port. Instead they have much smaller boxes now which only have a coax input and composite output. However, I was able to take those boxes into the comcast office and exchange them there for the older, larger boxes which do have a serial port. Of course the comcast employees will likely have no idea what a serial port is, but at least you'll be able to check the box you are getting physically to see if it's there. Remember to take some proof of address other than a comcast bill.<br>
<br>If you don't have a serial port, USB->serial cables work well. I use two cables with PL2303 chips, you just have to build it as a module in the kernel.<br><br>You might also be lucky enough to get a box with S-video out, but most just have composite.<br>
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