<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<snip><br></blockquote></div><br>Actually, the new HDHR looks like it is going to have 3 tuners, so for your scenario it'd be three monthly STB rentals you could compare it against. Also, you can only make that comparison if you have working firewire capture, which is far from a guaranteed thing, even if you try to use the FTC regs to force your provider to supporting firewire. Personally, I feel lucky that I even got the firewire channel changing working on my box, and I have no desire at all to try to put up enough of a fight to try to get a box with working firewire capture. It seems like how useful this is will depend a lot on how large of a selection of the channels for my provider are marked free to copy, which is something I'm still not entirely sure of. If it does pan out, what I'd be doing is keeping the cable box + HDPVR combo I use now for the premium channels, and pick up the new HDHR box for extra tuners for the copy freely channels. If enough channels are available via the new device, I would definitely rather add that than add additional cable boxes and HDPVRs.<br>