[mythtv-users] Can Myth 'tune' these 'free' converter boxes?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Wed Nov 25 05:10:45 UTC 2009


Mark Knecht wrote:
>    Like you, I'd like to get this working, but the two free converters
> Comcast provides are used with older TV sets so I cannot experiment
> with them. On the other hand my wife would like to record BBC on Myth
> which would require that I rent a new STB for Myth purposes only. If I
> was to do that then I could maybe look into this problem again, but to
> me this task seemed overly difficult. I suppose it really isn't but
> the instructions I could find at the time left me thinking it might
> turn into a time sink so I didn't proceed.

The free converter boxes are Pace DTAs.  I know I'm kind of late to the 
party here, but does this help?

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2009-May/255072.html



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