[olug] HDTV capture cards...

Eli Criffield olug at criffield.net
Mon Nov 15 17:02:18 UTC 2004


I'll have to check tonight for the make/model/id i want to say general
instruments but i could be wrong.

You just rent it from cox like a regular cable box, you don't have to buy
it, its more then a regular digital box though i think
its about $10/month.

Eli

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:58:24AM -0800, Sean Edwards wrote:
> 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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