[mythtv-users] Digital Cable.

[Chris Petersen]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2004 13:40, Chris Petersen wrote:
> 
>>>Now, in the satellite arena, there's at least a choice, since the
>>>FCC has mandated satellite providers to provide an enabled FireWire
>>>port on their set-top boxes.  So, even though everything coming out
>>>of that port will be on-the-fly transcoded down to 480p (to comply
>>>with the Broadcast Flag), at least it will be pure digital.
>>
>>Wait, when did this happen?  The FCC regulation I remember explicitly
>>left OUT satellite providers, and only applied to cable providers who
>>were providing HD content (meaning, if you had a normal digital,
>>non-hd box, they didn't have to provide it, but did if you were
>>paying for HD content).
>>
> Oops.  Right, sorry... I got it backwards.

And here you got me all excited that I might be able to get a firewire 
feed from Dish..  heh.

-Chris