[mythtv-users] Is it going to get harder and harder to get the content we want in MythTV?

[Kyle Walker]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2008 02:23 PM, jedi wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/12/2008 12:42 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>>>
>>>> ----- "Allen Edwards" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What we need is better integration of online content into MythTV.
>>>>> Then more and more people will say goodbye and good riddens to Cable
>>>>>


The inability to watch HD cable sports is making me use my mythbox
less and less.  Internet distribution is fine, but I do no see anyone
offering 10mbit streams of live college football games, much less in a
format that I can decode in linux.  I had to get a dvr from the cable
company just for sports because I am addicted to pause and rewind.  My
myth box has been demoting to recording the couple shows I watch that
are on clear qam.

I set up an HDPVR for a while but it was such an inconvenient hack job
that I took it back to the store.  I considered getting a TiVo because
the DVR from time warner has an interface from about 1998.  Why on
earth is my cable box that is decoding a high resolution stream use an
interface that looks like it has a resolution lower than my cell
phone?  Anyway, TiVo is out of the question because Austin is a time
warner switched video test market, so only 6 of our 40 or so cable HD
station are available to a cablecard.

It is an absurd situation and I do not see it getting any better.