However, if you want to record something other than your local broadcasts using FireWire, you may be out of luck. See the third paragraph from the pottom of this page. The FCC mandates working FireWire (IEEE-1394) ports on all cable HD DVRs, and this regulation does apply to Verizon FIOS as well. The other hypothetical "future use" for USB and SATA ports on cable DVRs is for expansion HDDs, but I have not heard of that function being utilized for them. USB ports on a cable DVR or STB are usually for service, or reserved for some hypothetical "future use" such as a game controller or keyboard, that hasn't yet been implimented and probably never will be. I would talk to Verizon and find out what is going on if the component and S-Video ports are always disabled. However, it would be very odd if both component, and S-Video are deliberately disabled for all programming, all the time, even when the DVR is set up to use them, and not HDMI, for output.
Verizon can also legally disable all analog video output for some programming, like on-demand movies that have not yet been released on disc.
It's possible that the component and S-Video ports won't work whenever the DVR settings have been configured to use HDMI for output. According to Motorola, the 7232 HD DVR is supposed to have component, S-Video, Composite, FireWire (IEEE-1394), and HDMI connections for video.
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When this DVR is connected to your TV, what output do you use to view recordings? Most Verizon DVR's I've seen will connect the incoming cable to the box, then to the DVR, then to TV with an RG-6 or RG-59 RF cable (the absolute worst, even worse than composite!). I'm also surprised you were able to capture anything, as many cable broadcasts are single-use copy protected. Then again, not really - I'm seldom surprised by anything Verizon does or doesn't do. I, too, am surprised Verizon turned off every output except composite. I hear the capture device you're using has poor audio anyway. I could not get any support from ARC Soft and I want to use another device which is more reliable with good technical support. I wanted to use my desktop but had problem with installing the driver, Arc Soft showbiz DVD, which has the driver. Probably the issue was slow processor on my laptop. I was able to get video and audio but audio was of very poor quality.
Using the USB capture device I bought ( VC-211V), which does not require video capture card on the computer, I connected red, white and yellow cables to DVR and USB to the PC. Verizon did not disable video composite output, all others (s-video, USB) are disabled. Cable provider is Verizon and DVR is Motorola 7232.
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