Samsung SIR-T165

[Polashek]

Does anyone carry this product in the Milwaukee area?  Any thoughts on this STB?  Are there any other STBs with a firewire port?  Thanks for your inputs.

[Gregg Lengling]

Don't know of anyone local...but ABT down in Illinois carries it.  The prices are all over the board on that unit...I've found the run from $540 to $699.....ABT has it at $599.00

[mnr929rr]

I do own that receiver and i  purchased mine from flanners in brookfield.The cost was $599.Any questions feel free to email me.

[mnr929rr]

I also saw it at american tv in waukesha,they wanted $699,but they do price matching there.

[johnmark]

The unit a American is a 160 DirecTV receiver not the 165.

[jlegge]

It is at Flanners and what a great box it is (personal opinion.).

It is on sale right now for $499.95......

Enjoy.

[Polashek]

Thanks for the information.  Does anyone know whether or not you could use the firewire port to record to a PC hard drive?  Thanks again.

[jlegge]

We've tried using the firewire ports to run a video and audio into a Mitsubishi HD-2000U without any luck. It appears the ports are not activated, although, it's probably user error.

I will look into what EXACTLY are the capabilities of the unit either this weekend or early next week for you. I will contact a guy I know at Samsung about the interoperability of the unit with a PC and just what exactly they planned for those ports.

I will hook it up to a Mitsubishi WS-55711 as well as retry the VCR capability. If for nothing else, just to see what happens. I will posts the results here.

God I love my job.....

[johnmark]

John,

The ports on the 165 work with the Mits DVHS.  The manual and 165 are not that user friendly so it takes a carefull ready of the manual to figure it out.  Once set up it is actually pretty easy to use and works perfect.

John