[mythtv-users] can I buy my own digital cable box for use with Time warner digital cable?

[Josh White]

a bummer indeed.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This question may have been asked, but I couldn't find anything in my
> > searches...can I buy an HD digital cable box and get a card from time
> > warner...one that would work better with myth, such as having control
> > capabilities via usb/firewire, etc?  Has anyone in mythtv-land tried
> this?
> >
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> Firstly, most (all?) US cable providers won't allow you to "bring your
> own box" (although I think they require them to allow it in Canada).
> Secondly, and more importantly, the box would behave identically to
> any other box of that type on a provider's network, as the enabling of
> ports/capabilities/encryption is all set by policies that are
> downloaded from the headend, not locally on the box itself.  In short,
> you generally can't, and it wouldn't help if you could.
>
> Which is a bummer.
>
> Robert
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