Two questions:

I just purchased one of these devices at Sam's Club this weekend. Solid build, intuitive set up and operation, easy disk formating and finalizing .... its a good product ..... except ..... there's a section on page 32 of the manual that explains how to use an "IR Blaster" to allow the Samsung hand controller to operate my DCT6400 STB. The manual is clear that the procedure they list to configure the DVR to operate the STB "may not work for all STBs." It requires using box codes (there are several listed in the manual for Motorola STBs) and experimenting until you find the codes that work. None of them do although it appears three of them (ending in 176) do something. After several tries, the procedure does not seem to work as the Samsung DVR controller will not operate the STB - change channels, volume, power off/on - which is all one would seem to need.

Has anyone tried to use this function on any Samsung DVRs combined with the Motorola DCT6400 series STBs and been successful? I can live without it, it would be nice if I just had to use one controller instead of two though. Ideas?

In setting up the DVR, I elected to use the STB's s-video output to the DVR enroute to the TV. The picture (video) displays and records fine through the DVR. However, there is only one set of audio out jacks on the 6400 STB. I'm running component video from the STB to the TV and the audio out jacks on the STB are hooked up directly from the STB to the TV for combined component audio/video feed to that source. Can I split the audio out jacks to allow me to have one set of jacks going to the TV and the the other going to the DVR for S video/audio feed to that source? Where can I get a splitter (Radio Shack) ??? Other options I haven't thought of yet???? Thanks

I split my audio from my STB to my DVR and to my TV with no problem, splitter was cheap in Walmart or Radio Shack.

Thanks, Nickyboy. Bought the audio splitter at Radio shack yesterday.

Anyone else on the DCT6400 STB/Samsung DVR remote control and IR Blaster interface?

Anyone else on the DCT6400 STB/Samsung DVR remote control and IR Blaster interface?

I assume from the table (pp. 81-83) in the owner's manual at http://www.**************.com/images/products/PDF_Files/dvdvr357_manual.pdf that this Samsung recorder will not control a Samsung hi-def receiver through its IR blaster. Can anyone say differently?

Or, more to the point, is there any combination of hi-def receiver and DVD recorder known to work together through an IR blaster?

My Panasonic E85H recorder will change the channels on my Radio Shack Accurian ATSC tuner using a Pioneer code. It cannot tune the subchannels, though.

Both of those are older models, but I'd imagine the Pioneer code is pretty universal. You may be able to find an Accurian, or a ProBrand, which is the same unit under a different brand name, used somewhere. (For the record, they are both very good 4th generation chipped receivers, but the Samsung is noticably better, at least for me, in my situation).

I have a DTB-H260F myself, but I really haven't tried controlling it yet with my Panny E85H, my Panny EH75VS or my Sony HX900, so I can't help you. Maybe someone else here has.