[mythtv-users] CableCARD-enabled Vista PC takes two days + many people to install

Kevin Hulse jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Apr 5 20:25:32 UTC 2007


On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:58:49PM -0600, Brett Kosinski wrote:
> >
> >Clearly, my setting up a MythTV system with FireWire in one day by
> >myself was a more-impressive feat than I'd realized at the time!
> >
> 
> Well, in Time Warner's defence, Anandtech was a little dumb, there.  Anyone
> who's read about CableCard knows that the card and device are married, so
> sticking the card in one of their TVs and then moving it to a PC is a dumb
> thing to do.  After that, it was just signal strength issues, which anyone

	...doesn't mean that real consumers won't do it though. It is
kind of lame that anandtech would do something like that but it is an 
obvious consumer usability issue.

> with a PVR-500 can relate to.
> 
> Frankly, I'm impressed how well it worked once they got through those
> issues.  It's impressive to see how well it all came together.  It sucks
> Myth will likely never be able to leverage CableCard...



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