On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:09 -0400, SamS wrote: > I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, so I'll just ask. > > Currently, I have a cable box that I control with an IRBlaster so that > mythtv can change the channels and all that. Works great. Now that I > have a new HDTV big screen, I would like to order the HDTV channels from > Comcast. This would mean a new cable box. > > Is it possible to control an HD cable box with an irblaster and capture > the HDTV output using a card like the pcHDTV HD-3000 just like I am > currently doing with my PVR-250 and the old cable box. Or is the only > HD content I will ever be able to capture going to be the OTA signals I > get from the antena? > > It just seems like it would work the same since the HDTV signal coming > out of the cable box to the tv could just be captured by the myth box in > the exact same way the old pvr250 did, right? I'm not trying to capture > the output with a firewire cable or anything fancy like that.
Uhhh... why not do firewire? Just ask them for a cable box with firewire, connect to your backend, and you can both capture AND change channels over firewire. It's been fine for me for about 4 months... I've just started doing DVB with my HD-3000 card and I'm getting mixed results so far. I predict lots more tweaking of channel settings for me this weekend... -I
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