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Author:  code [ Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:34 pm ]
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Has anyone set-up a system that uses a set-top-box (STB) with digital cable? How did you set it up? How are you switching channels?

Author:  graysky [ Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:17 pm ]
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Search on my nick for some posts on this topic. You'll need a channel changing script, a serial cable, and some luck since most of the damn cable boxes are programmed not to use the serial cable.

Author:  code [ Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:30 pm ]
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Thanks, just finished reading the thread regarding this topic. Sounds like there's still a lot of room to grow in the HTPC market. I'm surprised someone hasn't designed a tuner card that can download codecs (for lack of a better word) for various cable company STB's. Oh well, guess I'm stuck with the standard Tivo for now. :(

Author:  cesman [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:14 am ]
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Designing one card decode them all would be hard to do since the companies care more about scrambling content than following standards. :(

Author:  Xsecrets [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:05 am ]
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well how in the world does you tivo do it?

if I remember correctly it uses an irblaster, and you can do the same with mythtv

Author:  cesman [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:49 am ]
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Xsecrets wrote:
well how in the world does you tivo do it?

I don't know...Don't have one, don't need one. :D I think they would do it the same way you'd would do it w/ a MythTV boxen, video/audio out of digital box to capture in and some "IR controller" device to change channels, etc. on the digital box.

Author:  Xsecrets [ Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:00 am ]
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cesman wrote:
Xsecrets wrote:
well how in the world does you tivo do it?

I don't know...Don't have one, don't need one. :D I think they would do it the same way you'd would do it w/ a MythTV boxen, video/audio out of digital box to capture in and some "IR controller" device to change channels, etc. on the digital box.


yes I don't have one either, but that's what I would think it does, and I'm pretty sure I've heard that is exactly what it does, but the other poster said he guessed he was STUCK with standard tivo. I don't see the difference in using an irblaster and a tivo blaster or whatever they call it, so why should one be STUCK with tivo?

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