Tell them the FCC mandates all HDTV capable cable boxes must have working Firewire output as of April of 2004. http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/fcc-requires-firewire-on-all-cable-boxes-015708.php
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-225A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-238850A1.pdf and he'll call up the FCC Enforcement Bureau http://www.fcc.gov/eb/ Steve On Monday 28 November 2005 15:29, Neil wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Thank you very much for the info. Let's take this scenario: My boss calls > COX and they turned down my boss's request. They won't enable the firewire. > What should he tell? Is there any document that my boss can mention w/c > will force the guys to enable it? > > Steve Adeff writes: > > On Monday 28 November 2005 13:19, Neil wrote: > >> I would like to help my boss in California. He told me that he's with > >> cox. He also told me that he tried using the firewire output port and he > >> said, that he can't get it to work. I don't know what software he used. > >> I'm sure that he used Microsoft Windows. Is there a way to change on the > >> set top box to enable firewire transmission? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Neil > > > > no. > > > > and yes. call the cable company and tell them to turn it on, they have > > to. doesn't mean you'll get any channels over it through the computer > > though. > > > > if he runs windows tell him to search the AVS Forum as a lot of winbloze > > users are there and there are some good discussions on how to get > > firewire to work. > > > > do you know what box he has? if its a Motorola DCT series tell him to > > turn the box off and hit the select button on the remote immediately, > > this will give him the service menu, one of the menu options, d11 > > maybe(?), shows whether firewire is enabled. another, d11 maybe(?), shows > > the 5C level of the channel the tuner was on when you turned off the > > power. > > > > Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
