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MythTV/Comcast going all digital TV in Cambridge [OT]



Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Just had another thought... If its bus resets that cause the hiccups,  
> putting each cable box on its own FireWire card should also eliminate  
> the problem, as they'd be on busses isolated from one another.  
> Assuming of course that you have the ability to put another FireWire  
> card in the current system... And also assuming the mythtv code is  
> bright enough to only issue bus resets on the bus a specific box is  
> hooked to... Man, I really need to spend some more time looking at  
> that code...

Well, I still need to get you that non-working Firewire card.  But
yes, I suppose I could drop another card into that machine.

But I still want to get a frontend/TV for my guest room so when I
do that I might as well just use it as another backend, too.  I presume
the Dell Studio Hybrid isn't an energy hog?

-derek

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