[mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD STB

Jon Kunze jon99ut at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 17:55:08 UTC 2005


What laws should I wave in their face? I thought there was on, but I dont 
konw which. All I'm really concerned with at this point is the OTA channels, 
the rest would be nice, but I want the network broadcasts the most.

On 8/6/05, William <wmunson at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the top post.
> 
> You can, if you bang on them long enough and wave the law in their face, 
> get
> a firewire enabled box but all you will be able to receive is the local 
> OTA
> content. Here in Rochester anything in the digital package is blocked. As
> far as TW is concerned, the only option for capturing all content is to 
> rent
> their SA HD-DVR box which is a miserable device. Search the web for all 
> the
> people who bitch about the box and its tendancy to not record what you 
> tell
> it to.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jon Kunze
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 11:20 AM
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD STB
> 
> 
> Ok, i just got off the phone with Time Warner for a third time, and here's
> what I was told. They told me they don't provide any enabled firewire 
> ports
> due to copyright laws. I thought they had to provide one if it was 
> requested
> due to some other law? Does anyone on here have Time Warner and 
> successfully
> gotten a firewire HD box from them? If so, how did you get them to give it
> to you? Any help would be greatly appreciated, as these morons are really
> starting to get to me. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> On 8/6/05, Jon Kunze <jon99ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I specifically requested it twice, and still no luck. I'm going to
> call them today and see if I can go to another office and pick one up.
> Hopefully that will help.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/5/05, Brian Meehan < emt244671 at gmail.com> wrote:
> At least in Rochester, you have to specifically request the firewire
> enabled boxes. And then, it's all luck as to whether you get all the
> channels.
> 
> On 8/4/05, Jon Kunze < jon99ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I currently have an SA 3250 STB and just recently got a linux compatible
> > firewire card for capture. I'm curious if anyone could tell me where the
> > Firewire port is on their STB. The only thing I have even close to it is
> on
> > the front of my box, and it looks more like a USB port. I just got off 
> the
> > phone with Time Warner after about 30 minutes of them continually 
> telling
> me
> > my box had a firewire port, and that it was a USB-Firewire connection on
> the
> > front of the box, and then I finally gave up on this poor unintelligent
> > soul. I'm assuming the firewire port should be on the back of the cable
> box
> > along with all the other input and output connectors. Any assistance
> anyone
> > could give would be helpful, as I'd really like to get this up and
> running,
> > especially if anyone knows of a schematic on the net that shows the
> various
> > ports on the SA 3250. Thanks in advance.
> >
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