Jeff,<br><br>I have found in the past:<br><br>--If a serial port or firewire port is on your cable box, that is the best bet<br><br>--If above is not an option, a serial irblaster is a lot more reliable and easier to setup than the hauppauge blaster (hauppauge blaster has a weak signal and misses channels on occasion in addition to being annoying deciphering firmware codes). Serial blasters are like $12 from <a href="http://irblaster.info">irblaster.info</a> and I have not found a box I cannot control with a serial blaster (I've moved like 4x).<br>
<br>Good luck!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</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;">
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On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Jeff Clark wrote:<br>
> I've come to the sad realization that the cable in my area is all<br>
> digital and encrypted and that I need the box for what I want to<br>
> watch.<br>
<br>
</div>I thought they were supposed to, at the very least, make available in<br>
an unencrypted manner the channels that you would be able to receive<br>
via an antenna.<br>
<br>
They should do this either by normal unencrypted NTSC signals or<br>
unencrypted QAM.<br>
<br>
It may still be true that anything you might actually want to watch is<br>
encrypted, but the cable shouldn't be "all digital and encrypted", at<br>
least if you are in the USA.<br>
<br>
beww<br>
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