MCE Recording via Firewire

I found some interesting info about using my Comcast PVR as an additional tuner for my MCE system via fire wire- only problems I have are a) my current motherboard doesn't have firewire and b) I only have 1 PCI slot, so I will have to get a PCIe firewire card! I found one of these on Monoprice for $35, so all it good (they are $100 at Frys!)

I built out a little test system (with a nice DVD version of Windows MCE 2005) and found that it woks. I also came to the sad realization that my new HDMI motherboard is exactly as functional as my prior one (well, maybe LESS functional due to the lack of PCI slots and firewire) and all I needed to do was use the DVI-to-HDMI cable; so there was $100 wasted for no good reason.

I have pretty much given up on the MythTV attempts; and I have returned the KWorld ATSC115 tuner (I realized how bad the analog pictures looked!). I am now running my cable box through my Hauppauge PVR150 via S-Video (the tearing from the interlaced video is horrible!) until I get the PCIe firewire card in- then I will use the PVR150 as an analog tuner and have two digital tuners in my Comast DCT3412 I box was well!

There is a long forum in The Green Button about performing channel changes via firewire- and a long list of recommended updates to for MCE 2005:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=169757bb-3a50-4d8d-99bd-f24c7f1d7855&displaylang=en&Hash=TGFDL85

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887170

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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888795

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