[mythtv-users] 169time and new Firewire capture ability

Moasat mythtv at moasat.dyndns.org
Thu Apr 28 12:03:06 UTC 2005


> From talking with them on the phone a few months ago, I got the
> impression that they were just interested in milking as much
> money as they can from foolish videophiles with too much
> money.  A quote from P.T. Barnum comes to mind.
>
> They have absolutely no interest in providing an open
> interface to their modified boxes, and in fact they probably
> obscure the data on the firewire output specifically to make
> it difficult to reverse engineer.
> It's all rather ironic if you ask me. :P
>

Overpriced and obscure as it may be, I'm not finding a lot of options with
using Myth to record HD content from DirecTV.  My big question is whether it
will actually work, regardless of the price (for now).




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