On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:29 -0500, David George wrote: > On 2/17/2005 2:22 PM, Paul Gratz wrote: > > >I'm thinking about switching to satellite (probably DishNet possibly > >DirectTV) I was wondering do these boxes have firewire > > > No, and I have been looking hard and wanting much (like my english?). I > have Directv, but the same applies to Dish. The only fireware satellite > receivers I have been able to find (and there are a few of them) are > SDTV only. > > > or are they also > >required to do that? > > > Nope, sorry. > > > If not, is there another way to directly capture > >the digital data from a satellite feed w/o a conversion to analog first? > > > > > 169time.com >
Hmm that is kind of interesting, a bit pricey, but I might think about it. Thanks for the link! Paul > >I've searched the archives and it seems like the most recent discussions > >about this were some time ago when the answer was no, has this changed > >with the FCC ruling on firewire? > > > > > The FCC ruling on Firewire only affects HDTV cable boxes. It doesn't > apply to satellite at all (unfortunately). > > -- > David > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Paul Gratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
