[mythtv-users] Server/adding new card dilemma, HD/hardware questions

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:31:09PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Presuming you have a firewire output, you would feed that to a firewire 
> input on your mythbox. Myth has the capability. You would also need an 
> IR blaster to 'talk' to the STB, to change channels at the correct time, 
> for recording. All input through the firewire input must be 'pre-tuned' 
> at the STB. The IR blaster is just a computer controlled remote.

If true (and it may be), that's a Rogers'-specific misfeature. In general,
STBs with FireWire can be controlled through FW.

-dsr-

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