[mythtv-users] standard vs digital cable
Ramon Roca
ramon.roca at xcombo.com
Tue Jul 15 10:07:05 EDT 2003
> set-top boxes. This is why you never see a 'digital cable ready'
television
> set or a 'digital cable' tuner card... a set/card would have to be able to
> decode the signal from *your* particular cable company, and of course the
> cable companies have no incentive to enable you to use any device other
than
> their own set-top box.
>
> Bottom line: the WinTV-D or any 'digital tuner' cards are useless for
> digital cable.
Note that it isn't exactly the case for DVB, with that you still have a
chance to view FTA digital channels, and in some cases, having a CI-CAM
interface, decode the channels of some providers, therefore all from your
PCI DVB card, no need for a separate box. Thus seems that in na this is not
an option...
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