1394 - Recording Cable HD

[Richard]

As of April 1st per the FCC any cable company providing HD service must provide by request only an HD cable box with a functioning 1394/firewire port for the purpose of time shifting and recording HD content.

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Atlanta, Charter Cable, Motorola 6200, JVC 30K

As far as I can tell the 6200 1394 just spits out the raw bitstream. This can be recorded but requires it be played back using an onboard D/A convertor so the Mits D-VHS will not work leaving you with only the JVC and Marantz products. I have not been able to playback the 1394 into the 6200 and use the D/A convertors in it.

At this time I am feeding 1394 to the JVC and actually watching the content using the JVC which gets rid of about four subtle vertical lines on the left side that my 5100 also had and it is the box not my system. The negative is there is no OSD display in this mode so if you can't see your cable box there is nothing to tell you what channel you are on.

While HD is smooth any SD channels have the 4:3 image shifted to the left and what ever HD channel you were on is frozen in the remaining portion of the screen on the right side.

I have tried various combinations of settings and they have no effect what so ever on the 1394 output.

To do time shift recording requires a Radio Shack "VCR Programmer" remote or comparable product.

It did hang up one time; The screen on the JVC froze requiring a reboot of both products. fortunately I was not recording.

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