Richard, there is no IR blaster built into the 3250HD...you have to add it as an option (plugs into the back). When I had a 3250HD, I had the blaster and it worked just fine on my JVC D-VHS (though my 3250HD had no Firewire, so I was recording s-video) On 27-Oct-05, at 4:00 PM, Richard Hollandsworth wrote: > My JVC D-VHS doesn't have an IR Blaster output capability, and I > haven't heard of it on newer ones. > > The Firewire equipped SA3250HD (as used on TWC, COX , et. al.) does > not support START/STOP control of a D-VHS Recorder via the Firewire > port, nor did our local TWC and COX systems bother to enable the IR > Blaster feature that was originally built into the STB. > > Obviously are intentionally making it very hard to record HD > programs.... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.