[mythtv-users] Important Cable Question

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Carl Fongheiser wrote:

> On 2/9/06, cweisiger at i-55.com <cweisiger at i-55.com> wrote:
> So i thankful that my pvr-350 wont go to waste.
>
> Is there a card that i can get that can read the
> digital signal of my cable without the need of a box.
>
> Or do i absolutely need the cable box to descramble
> the digital signal from Charter.
>
> At the moment, there is no Linux-compatible hardware that can  
> descramble digital cable channels. You'll need the cable box to get  
> the digital cable channels.
>

Not quite true. The HD-3000 card can de-code *unencrypted* QAM256  
signals. I've read that 70% of the digital cable signals in the USA  
are unencrypted, but Murphy's Law being what it is the signals in  
*your* area may well be encrypted.

So far I have been able to get a few digital video channels and a  
*lot* of "digital music" channels, which have a pretty much static  
video (only changes when the sang does) and thus very low bandwidth.

I haven't got the digital channels working in MythTV (yet), but I can  
view them with mplayer.

I *do* pay for digital channels BTW, so I am not "stealing" anything,  
just using my own equipment to watch them :-)
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