[mythtv-users] Ceton InfiniTV 4
Phil Bridges
gravityhammer at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 01:31:23 UTC 2010
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:59 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 02:10:12PM -0400, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > On 8/30/2010 12:37, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Chris Pinkham<cpinkham at bc2va.org>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 09:32:27AM -0400, Bryan Cromwell wrote:
> [deletia]
>> > >
>> > > Please understand the limitations of such a tuner card. As MythTV will
>> > > likely never be licensed by CableLabs, all we will be able to capture is
>> > > that content which the tuner outputs unencrypted. That means content
>> > marked
>> > > copy-freely. This card will replace firewire capture off STBs, but not
>> > > analog capture.
>> >
>> > I absolutely understand the limitations. My cable headend has nearly
>> > everything except Premiums marked copy-freely, so this card could
>> > replace 4 Firewire-equipped cable boxes.
>> >
>>
>> Who's your cable provider? And how do a I tell this? I have TWC, and they
>> only unencrypt straight through cable the OTA channels (cbs/fox/cw/etc.) but
>> with a CableCard cabable device are you saying I could get basically
>> everything but the premiums (ie get discovery/espn/etc which are given free
>> if i rent a cable box)? Just trying to understand all of this.
>
> Frankly, I would never be able to trust the cable company not to screw
> me over at some later date. I would rather have an output that I know I can
> always record from even if it is a degraded one.
>
Pretty sure the only way that's going to happen is if you use an antenna.
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