Mythtv with Qwest Choice service?

[Dazed_75]

On 6/2/06, Steve Smith <foodog at uswest.net> wrote:
>
> As my vacation draws to a close I thought it'd be "fun" to put together
> a MythTV box.
>
> I had a suitable box, bought a Hauppauge WinTV card w/ IRblaster and
> remote and set to it. Since Windows is what's supported by the Hauppauge
> software I thought I'd get it going under "that" OS then take the
> settings info over to MythTV. Hahahahaha! Not.
>
> Four days into the struggle, I'm pretty sure that the "Motorola RG2200C"
> set top box that Qwest provides is extra-terrestrial technology and, as
> such, completely unsupported (except "kinda" by Tivo, since you have to
> pay monthly for that :-(
>
> Anybody had any luck at all with MythTV and Qwest Choice TV/VDSL? If
> you've got it working under Windows I'd appreciate hearing about that as
> well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
>
Isn't the Qwest set-top actually a Direct-TV setup?  And as such is it not a
digital sytem that eiyther puts an analog TV signal out to a single channel
(e.g. channel 4) or to an A/V connection?  Because the Hauppauge unit is, I
believe, an analog TV tuner so tuning it to any station other than (e.g.) 4
would be useless.  In fact, since they make so much of their being all
digital I would be surprised if they had you set up to use the analog single
station method at all.  They probably use only the A/V outputs form the set
top box and those would be useless unless your MythTV setup had a way to
tune the set top box and that would not involve the Haupauge unit at all.

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