Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Sears
Hi Michael - No worries - I get the box on Friday and will document everything I do tot get it up and running! On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:59:50 -0700, Mr. Myth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Sears wrote: Brad, Thanks for all the great advice. I talked to my next dorr neighbor who also

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-29 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:54:17PM -0800, Richard Sears wrote: Brad, Thanks for all the great advice. I talked to my next dorr neighbor who also has Cox digital service with HD and they gave him a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD which includes USB and two firewire ports. Hopefully this will

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-28 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:59:23AM -0800, Richard Sears wrote: Hi Brad, Actually the Dual MP system I had laying around doing nothing, so I am building it to be a dedicated backend system. I have 4 300GB Raptor drives on an LSI SATA RAID controller on the system, and the plan is to have two

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-28 Thread Richard Sears
Brad, Thanks for all the great advice. I talked to my next dorr neighbor who also has Cox digital service with HD and they gave him a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD which includes USB and two firewire ports. Hopefully this will be the same unit I get and the firewire will work for this. Then I can

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-27 Thread Tom E. Craddock Jr.
Richard Sears wrote: Hey Everyone - So I broke down and ordered cable from my local cable company (Cox) here in S. CA. Much to my surprise did I learn that they no longer allow (or support/send/whatever) any of the subscription channels (HBO, Showtime, etc) over their analog cable system. In

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-27 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:44:59AM -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: So here I am in the middle of my 1.2TB, Dual Athlon MythTV monster server build thinking its going to be a bummer to have to get just regular cable and nothing else on my mythtv system. Dual Athlon? That seems like a whole

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-27 Thread Richard Sears
Hi Brad, Actually the Dual MP system I had laying around doing nothing, so I am building it to be a dedicated backend system. I have 4 300GB Raptor drives on an LSI SATA RAID controller on the system, and the plan is to have two or three front end systems all talking to the backend system. So the

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-26 Thread Jack R. Hyde
In my area Cox has the Motorola cable box that has firewire output that works very, very well with mythtv, including the ability to change the channel through the firewire cable. At the moment nothing is encrypted so it works brilliantly, including with HBO, Showtime, and INHD1 2. I am dreading

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-26 Thread Kelly Grigg
I've read that you can rig up one of those infared remote things from the computer to the digital box to control the channels. My PVR250 came with one of those cables with an ir blaster to do this...you might do some searching for that...and I'm sure people on the list do this with both

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

2005-03-26 Thread Richard Sears
Hey Jack - Interesting. They would not tell me the brand or type of box they will be delivering until the day they arrive, so I could not really try and figure much out. I plan on putting in a Sound Blaster Audigy2 I have laying around into the system, and that has firewire builtin to it, so