On 5/17/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an SA3250HD here. Three things have soured me on trying to use it: > > 1) Can't change the channel via FW. > 2) No HBO via FW - even though I pay for it. > 3) My flavor of Cabopoly (Comcast) may/will chose to disable this at some > point.
I happened to be at Comcast this morning getting a replacement remote for my non-HD box. I managed to run into a fairly knowledgable tech person while I was there. She said Comcast here in the Bay Area does not enable 1394 by default on any box going to the field. If a customer calls and asks for it to be turned on they ask what equipment it's going to be attached to. Unless the answer is on a list of things they support it won't be turned on. After that she says that even though they are supposed to turn it on and make it work that in most cases it doesn't work and most customers do not call back so they don't see this as very important. She thinks Comcast in San Jose/Los Gatos will do more with this in 2006 or 2007 but not right now. The document she printed out for me has this address http://thesource/olrt_v4/forms/openDoc.html?DOCID=54243 but going here online pulls up the front page of some online magazine and not what she printed for me. I'll be interested to see how this works out. I still think that the 5C spec stops a properly enabled 1394 port on a settop box from transmitting unprotected HD material to devices that does not exchange encryption keys which I'm quite sure the Linux 1394 stack doesn't do. - Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
