[olug] HDTV capture cards...

Sean Edwards cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 15 16:58:24 UTC 2004


Do you have any manufacturer info from the box, like
maker, model number, FCC device ID . . . ?

Do you buy this box, or rent/lease it from cox?  How
much is it?

-=Sean Edwards=-

--- Eli Criffield <olug at criffield.net> wrote:

> It doesn't do any of that, I haven't looked into
> hacking it, It has ports
> all over it for god knows what, (DVI, ethernet, USB,
> firewire, IR,
> SmartCard, Fiber Optic, others i can't remember)  so
> I'm betting someone
> has hacked it to extract the video.
>                                                     
>                            
> but it can record digital channels, which is
> possible with myth, i got
> myth to send an IR signal from a thing i soldered
> together to a digital cox
> box, but it was a huge pain in the ass and wasn't
> very reliable it would
> get the channel wrong all the time, and was very
> slow to change channels
> that way.
>                                                     
>                            
> And what good is it it can't record COPS and
> Forensic Files off corttv?
>                                                     
>                            
> Don't get me wrong though Mythtv is one of the
> coolest things I've seen in
> a long time, But for the lazy there is an easer way
> and even cheaper way :)
>                                                     
>                            
> eli
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:37:06AM -0800, Sean
> Edwards wrote:
> > Does the cox DVR cable box connect to a home
> network?
> > 
> > Can you watch the recorded material on the cox DVR
> > from  other tv's or computer's in the house?
> > 
> > Can you burn your recorded material to a CD/DVD?
> > 
> > Can you remotely schedule recording events from
> via
> > the internet or a dial-up to a home network?
> > 
> > If the cox DVR cable box can do all that, then I
> will
> > agree that it is a better deal than MythTV.
> > 
> > -=Sean Edwards=-
> > 
> > --- Eli Criffield <olug at criffield.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Now i have a cox DVR cable box, it just works,
> it
> > > even records HDTV > (thought my tv isn't HDTV so
> i
> > dono what the quality > is like), and the cox DVR
> > costs a lot less then setting up a MythTV. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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