[mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Lane Schwartz]

On 5/17/05, Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not that I would do this, nor recommend that others try.... :)
> 
> But how severe are the technical (not the legal) barriers to putting a
> bus sniffer between the cable box and a blessed device, and observing
> how the blessed device replies to the cable box's initial inquiries?
> 
> It's possible that the behavior of the cable box goes as follows:
> notice that a device has been attached, make an initial query to see
> if the attached device is blessed, if attached device is not blessed
> then terminate connection, else if attached device is convinces the
> cable box that it's blessed then send data to it.
> 
> Of course it's also possible that the cable box periodically queries
> the attached device &/or actually encrypts the data.
> 
> Just some thoughts...

This is interesting...

http://www.renohdtv.com/charter.php

The author seems to think that if you have cable TV service, the cable
company must provide you with any local HDTV stations without charge
over QAM. Can anyone back this up?

Lane

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