This made me scratch my head

[cpacini]

I was reading the local paper yesterday and came across this article about ditching a traditional landline in favor of VOIP. Its not that informative, but I suppose it would be useful for someone who knew nothing about the technology. This part at the end made me chuckle though:

Also, many fax machines and digital video recorders have difficulty communicating with VOIP service.

WTF is this guy talking about? I cant see how a DVR and VOIP could possibly be related.

Unless I'm a moron and just pwned myself.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: cpacini
I was reading the local paper yesterday and came across this article about ditching a traditional landline in favor of VOIP. Its not that informative, but I suppose it would be useful for someone who knew nothing about the technology. This part at the end made me chuckle though:

Also, many fax machines and digital video recorders have difficulty communicating with VOIP service.

WTF is this guy talking about? I cant see how a DVR and VOIP could possibly be related.

Unless I'm a moron and just pwned myself.

CAn't see the relation myself. I can for a fax though, since they are analog and therefore wouldn't work on a voip line (i think)

 

[RightIsWrong]

Fax works fine over a VOIP line. I had vonage for years and was able to send/receive faxes.

 

[kranky]

Don't some DVR's (like TiVo) have to be connected to a phone line?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: cpacini
I was reading the local paper yesterday and came across this article about ditching a traditional landline in favor of VOIP. Its not that informative, but I suppose it would be useful for someone who knew nothing about the technology. This part at the end made me chuckle though:

Also, many fax machines and digital video recorders have difficulty communicating with VOIP service.

WTF is this guy talking about? I cant see how a DVR and VOIP could possibly be related.

Unless I'm a moron and just pwned myself.

Getting schedules, guides, ordering pay per view stuff.

 

[nakedfrog]

He may be confusing it with digital phone service? I don't know, I know that we had to have a separate line run for the fax machine at my last job because it wouldn't work through the phone system. DVRs often plug into phone lines for PPV and such.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Yup, Tivo needs a phone line to dial up the 800 number for the updated schedules (if you don't have it connected to your network, that is).

 

[cpacini]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
Yup, Tivo needs a phone line to dial up the 800 number for the updated schedules (if you don't have it connected to your network, that is).

ah, i see.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: cpacini
Is that only for TIVO branded DVR's? I've never had a Cable company issued DVR that needed to be connected to a phone line.

That's because the cable box uses the cable network itself for those operations. Many DVRs require a phone line if there is no inband management capabilities.

 

[njmodi]

DVR/Cable boxes have in the past used regular phone lines for PPV, billing, SW updates etc... all this is slowly moving to data-based solutions, i.e. directly over the Coax, or Eth...

 

[Toasthead]

I had a ReplayTv and it needed a telephone line if you didnt network it.