[mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible?

[Griffon --]

That is an interesting product line, I would love to See some
alternatives to the HD Tivo but this company seems to be charging a
ridiculous premium and they are not offering an open support mode or
anything to really give incentive to what could be a large audence for
them (the MythTV users)l. Seems like a business model that will never
mange to expand, but who knows.

It dose give me hope that maybe (just maybe) somebody will come out
with or we can import in, a proper PCI capture card that we can work
with D*TV or that somebody else will start selling these same modified
boxes for a lot less (some of them are double the cost of a unmodified
unit).

I have never quite understood what is so hard, it looks like the HD
Tivo just has a in line decoder and couple raw capature cards which
makes it all a driver hissue, but I'm certinaly no expert :).

I looked over on the AVS but didn't see any success stories with Myth
.17. If anyone here dose try one of these out and it works let us
know, it's still probable a cheaper option then the HD Tivo (which I
own and would like a lot more if D*TV would ever let it be networked
so I can hook MythTivo up, bastards).

-Griffon


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:45:21 -0500, Kyle Rose <krose+mythtv at krose.org> wrote:
> Vincent K. Britton wrote:
> > Does anyone here have experience integrating this in to MythTV.  Do you
> > think it would work with .17 with its new Firewire Recording capability?
> 
> I looked into this a few months ago, and (at least at the time) their
> hardware/software interface was proprietary, so they would not release
> the source code to their driver.  I'm trying to keep the number of
> crappy closed source drivers to a minimum (NVidia's being the only one I
> use), so I scrapped the idea.  I would be very interested if they
> decided to GPL the driver, because it would be the only real non-OTA
> option for unencrypted HDTV short of performing a DIY illegal import of
> some unlicensed cablecard->USB or cablecard->PCI interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle
> 
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