[TriLUG] mythtv, QAM 256, & Time Warner Cable...

[Keith Johnson]

At 04:36 PM 10/16/2006, you wrote:
>Reginald Reed wrote:
>>But speaking of port availability, Firewire is enabled on my
>>Scientific Atlanta 8300HD HD DVR.  I was able to connect my Macbook
>>and capture data.  The data is encrypted so I can't do anything with
>>it but it bodes well for the potential of using firewire to connect to
>>HD display.
>
>That's good to hear!  I've hestiated to allow anything that I _really_
>want to watch accumulate on the DVR for fear of loosing it in a power
>outage, HD failure, etc. If I could back up the files, with some
>confidence that restoring them would allow the DVR to play them...it
>would make me feel much better....
>
>C

As an aside -- I run my 8300HD with an external sata drive that 
doubled my store time. Just be sure to use a sata2 cable.

kj