[mythtv] freesat from BBC/ITV

[Simon Kenyon]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 21:20 +0000, James Buckley wrote:

>         
>         > with Sky, as the signal is encrypted, developers are
>         unwilling to play 
>         > in this space.
> 
> I  do not think this is true. Even if you don't put a viewing card
> into a sky STB, it still retrieves the 7 day card for all Free-to-air
> channels. Therefore it cannot be encrypted. However it _is_ stored in
> a proprietary format (ironically called OpenTV). As soon as we learn
> how to read the opentv protocol, we'll be able to access the 7-day EPG
> from Sky. 

now that i think about it - that makes sense.
thank you for making me realise that
--
simon