Trevor Boicey wrote: > > I like the box, but the UI really is behind the times. Compare There are several EPG apps available for the SA boxes. I don't know which one you're referring to. Don't forget that SA is locked in a prolonged legal battle with Gemstar/TV-Guide over patents that supposedly cover the EPG UI in a settop box. Gemstar has some thoroughly idiotic patents on things like displaying program information in a grid, and such. Don't get me started on that, if you don't want to see me starting to curse like a sailor in three languages... > it to say, a modern RCA DSS receiver and it looks pretty awful. The > video scaler is also poor, the picture-in-menu looks pretty bad. Two words: point sampling. Trying to enlarge video with that hardware produces really amusing results. > My cable provider is also my high speed internet provider, but > at this time they ship two boxes to do it. That could be done in > one box with the right hardware, just plug the computer into > the ethernet of the digital cable box. Should be doable with an SA-Explorer. The software can get its hands on anything in the MPEG transport, so a TCP/IP implementation on top of that, and interfacing to a PC through ethernet/USB should be possible. The CPU would have to work hard though, and it's not very fast (by today's standards, at least). -Ori Pessach
