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<blockquote data-quote="PABeaver" data-source="post: 848236" data-attributes="member: 10495"><p>It's not. Your broadcast stations will be unencrypted (by law) as well as maybe a handful of other channels (maybe). Using the component cables is the only way to guarantee that you will be able to record any channel you want.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>You can use firewire if you have a firewire port on your computer. I bought a firewire card at my local computer shop for ~$10 which gave me 3 ports.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>I am not familiar with that model of cable box, but the IR port on the back is probably for blasting to another unit like your receiver. You won't be able to plug the IR out into that port as it is an out port as well. The IR blaster on the HD-PVR/Colossus will have a cord that sticks onto the front of your STB where the STB reads the IR signal from the remote. This cord has a little IR light on the end of it that replicates your remote signal. The ethernet port and the USB port you probably will not be able to use to use to change the channel with and even if you could, it would probably take a lot of searching to figure out how to do it. The 1394 port on the back of your STB is indeed a firewire port.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PABeaver, post: 848236, member: 10495"] It's not. Your broadcast stations will be unencrypted (by law) as well as maybe a handful of other channels (maybe). Using the component cables is the only way to guarantee that you will be able to record any channel you want. You can use firewire if you have a firewire port on your computer. I bought a firewire card at my local computer shop for ~$10 which gave me 3 ports. I am not familiar with that model of cable box, but the IR port on the back is probably for blasting to another unit like your receiver. You won't be able to plug the IR out into that port as it is an out port as well. The IR blaster on the HD-PVR/Colossus will have a cord that sticks onto the front of your STB where the STB reads the IR signal from the remote. This cord has a little IR light on the end of it that replicates your remote signal. The ethernet port and the USB port you probably will not be able to use to use to change the channel with and even if you could, it would probably take a lot of searching to figure out how to do it. The 1394 port on the back of your STB is indeed a firewire port. [/QUOTE]
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