[mythtv-users] Firewire no longer required on HD STBs

[Johnny Walker]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> On 6/30/2010 1:37 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
>>
>> I can see this ethernet option being the same - unless there is **just
>> one** standard across all manufacturers of cable boxes and all networks,
>> then the TV manufacturers aren't going to put the effort into supporting
>> any of them.
>
> Right.
>
>  Can you imagine the headaches when a user hooks up his shiny new TV to
> firewire only to not have it work.
>
> Calling the cable co --> "Sounds like a problem with your TV"
> Calling the TV maker --> "That's a problem with the output of the cable box"
>
> AWESOME! The consumer -- F'd over again.
>
>
>
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> 'fortune' says:
> In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the
> organization the less people appreciate Murphy's law,
> the Peter Principle, etc.
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so I wonder if my TV only had Firewire - what would the cable company
have done for me?

-Johnny