[mythtv-users] migrating from analog cable to digital cable (Cogeco), recheduling on new tuners and removing existing tuner

[Craig Treleaven]

At 9:34 AM -0500 2/20/11, Tom Lichti wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mark Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> On February 19, 2011 22:57:16 Mike McMullin wrote:
> >>   My cable company is migrating it's customers over to digital cable (I
> > Unfortunately you'll probably find that your HDHR's don't do any good.  Here in
>> Canada most cable providers encrypt EVERYTHING. (No FCC, no FCC rules..)  The
>> only unencrypted channels that I get here in Nova Scotia are audio channels
> > and a couple of junk channels (CPAC?).
>
>This is all true, but I wouldn't discount the idea that they will cut
>off the analog channels the moment digital goes live. Rogers still
>provides analog, even though they've stopped selling it for quite
>awhile.
>

Not true here in Oakville.  There are about 30+ unencrypted channels available on Cogeco that my HDhomerun happily records. YMMV.

Craig