OT: I hate RCN's DVR

[Derek Atkins]

Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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 second that.  I've been doing that for years.  RCN's Motorola HD boxes
have open Firewire and you can read every channel you subscribe to,
including the pay channels.  So if you subscribe to HBO you can get HBO
into the myth via firewire at full resolution!   Quite nice.

> -dsr-

-derek

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