[mythtv-users] Thinking of Switching from Cable to DirectTv
Gordon Rimac
gordon.rimac at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 19:10:27 UTC 2005
> I have analog cable now and I'd like to switch to DirecTV sat. I have
> 2 pvr250 that are split on the cable. How hard/possible is it to
> control those boxes with serial ports, guessing 2 ports, one for each
> external receiver. Do people do this?
I just went the other way (DirecTV to Cable) but for about a year I
ran 2 DirecTV recievers with MythTV. I used serial cables that I
bought from Snapstream. They worked great, I never had channel change
problems.
> I don't really want to use a
> IRblaster. Does the Sat onscreen menus come up when myth changes the
> channels?
The menu did come up on my RCA recievers, but I set it to a short
timeout and used a theme that overlapped over it, so you couldn't see
it on live tv channel changes.
> Is it transparent (analog cable like) after you got the
> serial ports working?
Yes, it will work just fine. Channel changes did seem to take a
little bit longer than with cable. Picture quality was much better
than what I get today with analog cable.
> What model DirecTV tuners work the best here
Make sure you get boxes with "low speed data ports". I used 2 RCA
recievers that I bought at circuit city.
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