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I've had it w/ Comcast; I always thought it was a bad marriage and If I'm going to have to live with an STB its time to file for divorce and go satellite. I'm a long-standing Mythtv user so I've been researching using it w/ either DirectTv or Dish. Here's what I've gleaned from poking around the forums and I'd welcome confirmation, rebuttal or any suggestions about my conclusions. It looks like Mythtv has a provision for directly accessing STBs through firewire. There is even a 'canned' setting in the backend for 'firewire cable box' and in Input Connections a setting for using DishNet long term EIT data. But when I look at the boxes the companies provide they don't appear to include firewire capacity. Is this accurate? In the end it looks like the only practical and available means of using Mythtv as my PVR is the Hauppauge 1212.
David
David