turn off the firewire port? (Score 1)

the signal still has to get from the cable box to the tv unencoded (unless your tv has to be certified with a certain cable provider, which is not going to happen)...so why not just route the signal through the tivo and from tivo to tv.

I realize that tivo does not support HD, but it seems to me that 'turn off the firewire port' would not stop them from producing a model that could.

am I missing something?