[mythtv-users] Future cablebox firewire output to be replaced by ethernet?

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 02:27:09 UTC 2008


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>> I heard at a local bestbuy that new cableboxes will be replacing the
>> firewire output with Ethernet.  The salesperson was confident that the new
>> boxes will allow streaming HD content out to a PC over Ethernet.
>>
>> I know we can do this using firewire, but has anyone heard about this over
>> Ethernet?  I suspect I might have been dealing with an idiot....
>>
>>
>> I have heard about this before.  But it was a concept that was still in
R&D.  So if it does ever happen it will be some time as cable labs would
have to approve it, tv have to be manufactured, and cable co publish it.

Mitchell
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