OT: I hate RCN's DVR

[Dan Ritter]

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.


-dsr-

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