[mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

Brad Templeton brad+myth at templetons.com
Wed May 18 01:30:50 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:13:26PM -0400, William wrote:
> > Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device 
> > does some preliminary transactions to show it's compliant 
> > with the spec) but even once the data is sent from the DVD or 
> > cable box to the TV/monitor it's still encrypted as per the above.
> > 
> 
> These difficulies are what is leading me to think about getting a hd dvr
> from one of the providers. The local cable co is giving them away for the
> same rental as a standard cable box. If its anything like a tivo the content
> of the box should be available over the network connection for easy copying.

It is this decision which has this community justifiably up in arms.

As the systems are being architected, open source tools like MythTV
can't compete with the box from the cable company, even though the
software is free as in beer too.   For perfectly rational reasons people
like you will get the cable/satellite provided PVR or other blessed
PVR, reducing demand for the open source tools which in turn limits the
number of people who will develop for them and test them and support
them.

Yet here's were a lot of the innovation is coming from.


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