OT: I hate RCN's DVR

[lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)]

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Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:37:56PM -0500, Gordon Marx wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I know this is OT, but this DVR is killing me. It's a Motorola DCT3416 from
>> RCN. I had the same DVR with Comcast and had no problems, but the RCN DVR
>> software seems to be much worse. The main issue is that it records multiples
>> of the same episodes of shows with the same descriptions, which fills up the
>> DVR and causes the DVR box to throw out higher-priority recordings. Oy. Does
>> anyone have any suggestions? (other than "suck it up")
> 
> If you shout at RCN long enough, they will eventually give you
> an HD cable box with an active FireWire output. Connect this to
> a Linux box with a cheap FireWire card and lots of storage, and
> run MythTV.
> 
> 

I've been meaning to ask about this, since I've got RCN (and we just got
a new box, which I think might have a firewire connection).  It sounds
like you're saying the MythTV box simply acts as external storage, since
the cable box is what has (and controls) the tuner.  Apart from
controlling the storage aspect, what advantage does the Myth box give?

 -Don
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