[mythtv-users] Digital Cable.

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Aug 27 14:11:50 EDT 2004


On Friday 27 August 2004 13:40, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > Now, in the satellite arena, there's at least a choice, since the
> > FCC has mandated satellite providers to provide an enabled FireWire
> > port on their set-top boxes.  So, even though everything coming out
> > of that port will be on-the-fly transcoded down to 480p (to comply
> > with the Broadcast Flag), at least it will be pure digital.
>
> Wait, when did this happen?  The FCC regulation I remember explicitly
> left OUT satellite providers, and only applied to cable providers who
> were providing HD content (meaning, if you had a normal digital,
> non-hd box, they didn't have to provide it, but did if you were
> paying for HD content).
>

Oops.  Right, sorry... I got it backwards.

-JAC


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