One of the most common problems with all cable boxes and especially ones that have DVR capability is one of heat disipation. As a set top box these things have to be silent.. in other words no fan. This causes many of them to overheat causing problems in the mpeg decoder chip. Probably the single hotest thing in your set top box. Doing something as simple as not uting other components such as a VCR on top may go a long way to preventing the stops and starts..
I've had the good fortune of working on SGI machines for years, but what I want now is a modern operating system not one that's been unchanged for basically 6 years...
I guess they've managed to convince everybody that a copyright owner has the right to his copyright indefinetly. Tack one more attempt onto the "Mickey Mouse for Disney" preservation act. It's this sort of fundamental shift in perception that is the hardest to fight. Just reading the main post gives people that idea.
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One of the most common problems with all cable boxes and especially ones that have DVR capability is one of heat disipation. As a set top box these things have to be silent.. in other words no fan. This causes many of them to overheat causing problems in the mpeg decoder chip. Probably the single hotest thing in your set top box. Doing something as simple as not uting other components such as a VCR on top may go a long way to preventing the stops and starts..
I've had the good fortune of working on SGI machines for years, but what I want now is a modern operating system not one that's been unchanged for basically 6 years...
I guess they've managed to convince everybody that a copyright owner has the right to his copyright indefinetly. Tack one more attempt onto the "Mickey Mouse for Disney" preservation act. It's this sort of fundamental shift in perception that is the hardest to fight. Just reading the main post gives people that idea.