[mythtv-users] Directv vs Dish

Conrad conrad.montlouis at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 16:02:12 UTC 2008


Brad,

Looking at the Best Buy website, they only have H21s and those do not seem
to have firewire ports.  Are they just not listing the H20s?

Thanks


On 4/9/08, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
> Conrad wrote:
> > Does one have a choice as far as the boxes are concerned?  When
> > ordering, can I request a box that can be controlled via the serial
> > port, keeping in mind that I want/need a HD box.
>
> They do not support controlling a box with a serial port, but it just
> happens to work. So no, you can't request one that does that. I
> currently use D11's which work great. The H20 is listed as working on
> the wiki. I'm not sure what they give you, but I'm getting 2 on Saturday
> so I'll have to figure out if it works or not, too.
>
> You can just goto Best Buy or wherever and buy an H20 box yourself so
> you don't have to take the chance. If the ones I get on Saturday don't
> work for me, I'll return them and buy H20's.
>
> -Brad
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