[mythtv-users] Comcast Set-Top Box and OSD

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:32:41PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >  > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Clark <jeff at vacantcanvas.com> wrote:
> >  > > Comcast in Boston makes you use their box since all the channels are
> >  > >  digital, which means that I definitely have to use a set-top box to
> >  > >  control my channels (right?).
> >  > >
> >  > >  I'm curious though: when I hook my Mythbox up to my set-top box and
> >  > >  change the channel to start a recording or whatever, won't the OSD
> >  > >  from the Motorola box be recorded onto the Mythbox recording?  Is
> >  > >  there any way around this?
> >  >
> >  > Welcome to Boston Comcast...
> >  > You can always use firewire, you'll get everything but the premium
> >  > (read:movie) channels that way.
> >  > RCN apparently has no 5C enabled for any channels. I'm looking into
> >  > this as it will probably get me to switch ASAP. (and save $15/mo too
> >  > apparently)
> >
> >  HBO and so forth are encrypted QAM; I don't know if they make
> >  them available via FireWire.
> 
> for RCN?

Yes, for RCN. When they do a freebie weekend, however,
they turn off the encryption on the QAM channels.

-dsr-

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