[olug] HDTV capture cards...

Brandon Lederer brandon at tolkien-movies.com
Mon Nov 15 17:04:12 UTC 2004


The COX DVR cant record COPS?  or Forensic Files off of Court TV?  Why not?

On Monday 15 November 2004 10:54 am, Eli Criffield 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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