[mythtv-users] dishnetwork hdtv

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Thu Jan 4 02:53:55 UTC 2007


>Mark Lehrer wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately it is not easy because they want to do two things:
>>prevent people from copying the content and force you to use their
>>DVR.
>>
>>I am looking at a couple of expensive options: 169time and nextcom.
>>They have hacks to satellite receivers that will let you do your own
>>DVR.  Unfortunately, the Nextcom requires you to dedicate a Windows XP
>>machine to this task - I'm not sure if 169time is better or not yet.
>>At least their unit seems to run on Linux, which means maybe it could
>>co-exist with MythTV.
>>
>>Mark
>>  
>>
>Or, you get a genpix unit connected to your USB port and enjoy HDTV on 
>E* for much less $.

But only non-encrypted channels as far as I can tell, which probably
rules out most dish network channels.


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