[mythtv-users] Damn you Time Warner

[William Munson]

Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Sean Goodpasture wrote:
>   
>> So I finally got a Firewire card to test with the Motorola 6200...  It
>> works decently, except that stupid Time Warner has marked dang near
>> everything with the no copy or copy once flag so I can't record much of
>> anything.
>>  
>> I can understand the movie channels, but Noggin?  Seriously?!
>>
>>     
>
> Sean,
>
> Did you ever end up with any more luck with TW in your area?  Are you by chance
> the Austin, TX area?  Since you mentioned Uverse competing with TW and all.  I'm
> down here and just picked up a SA4240HDC yesterday.  I've been fighting a losing
> battle in attempting to get it functional for many channels.
>
> It seems the only stuff that is coming in is the local hidef stations and BBC
> America.  They take away all my analog stations and all the other stuff.
>
> I'm debating escalating this up higher, but if you've already done it and lost,
> i'm not sure it's worth the effort.  I've read some posts in the past (not on
> the Myth list, but other lists), where people have managed to get in contact
> with the actual cable engineers and get the CCI bits fixed correctly.
>
> In the example post that I was reading, it turns out that the cable company was
> taking the Broadcast Flag bit (yeah you know the one that was shot down) and
> using it to determine when to put some CCI bits in place.  The guy managed to
> get it flipped on all of the stations he wanted and happy ending.
>
> I wish I lived in a fairy tale land that I could threaten to move to another
> cable co like you guys list in this thread.  Threatening to go to uverse
> probably won't solve anything....
>
>   

This is the very reason that we are all holding our breath on the new 
hd-pvr card. I have one local hd station (ABC) that will not record over 
firewire. Contacted the station manager and was told that they requested 
this themselves because  they are  "worried about people stealing the 
shows and  putting them on the internet". Will be interesting to see 
what happens after the release of the hd-pvr. I suspect there will be 
lawsuits flying so get yours before Hauppauge is forced to pull the 
product. Should be an interesting lawsuit since the component outputs 
are analog and should fall into the "analog hole" in the law.

Bill