[mythtv-users] Comcast Set-Top Box and OSD
Steven Adeff
adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 17:55:48 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:32:41PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Clark <jeff at vacantcanvas.com> wrote:
> > > Comcast in Boston makes you use their box since all the channels are
> > > digital, which means that I definitely have to use a set-top box to
> > > control my channels (right?).
> > >
> > > I'm curious though: when I hook my Mythbox up to my set-top box and
> > > change the channel to start a recording or whatever, won't the OSD
> > > from the Motorola box be recorded onto the Mythbox recording? Is
> > > there any way around this?
> >
> > Welcome to Boston Comcast...
> > You can always use firewire, you'll get everything but the premium
> > (read:movie) channels that way.
> > RCN apparently has no 5C enabled for any channels. I'm looking into
> > this as it will probably get me to switch ASAP. (and save $15/mo too
> > apparently)
>
> HBO and so forth are encrypted QAM; I don't know if they make
> them available via FireWire.
for RCN?
--
Steve
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