[mythtv-users] Question about Firewire and Digital Cable

[Chris Ribe]

If you have a box the can handle HD, you will be able to get all of the
free-to-air (OTA) HD channels that the cable provider carries. You won't
have to pay for an HD package.

In all likelyhood, these are also the ONLY channels (along with their SD
versions) that you will have access to via firewire, regardless of what
package you pay for.

On 10/30/05, Michael Tiller <michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Should I assume by this comment that if I get a receiver that has a
> firewire port that they have to enable it even if I'm not getting an HD
> package?
>
> --
> Mike
>
> On 10/30/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >
> > Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Tiller wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm interested in finding a digital cable receiver that will allow me
> > >> to stream (via firewire) directly to my MythTV box. I just called
> > >> WOW and they said that they provide Scientific Atlanta 3100/3200
> > >> boxes. They seemed somewhat vague about *exactly* what they
> > >> provided. If I get really serious, I'll try to pin them down, but
> > >> that isn't my question...
> > >>
> > >> I notice that people talk about 3250's as having firewire ports.
> > >> But, what the guy from WOW said was that they had to license these
> > >> ports in order to use them and that WOW does not license them. The
> > >> bottom line (at least according to him) is that there is no way to
> > >> use a firewire port on a receiver even if your receiver has such a
> > port.
> > >>
> > >> Does this sound right? Anybody with WOW (ideally in SE Michigan :-)
> > >> care to comment?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks a bunch if you can confirm (or even better, refute) this
> > >> information.
> > >
> > > The people @ WOW are woefully wrong. Search this list at
> > > gossamer-threads (google search mythtv & gossamer-threads) for FCC and
> >
> > > Firewire, youll find posts linking to the FCCs requirement of firewire
> > > ports as of July '04.
> >
> > Perhaps wrong about not enabling the ports, but they are right about the
> > ports not working unless they enable them. ;)
> >
> > Mike
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