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

[Gabe Rubin]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2008 03:05 PM, Kyle Walker wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So the DRM is doing the job the cable co wants it to do.
>
>>   My
>> myth box has been demoting to recording the couple shows I watch that
>> are on clear qam.
>
> Or, perhaps, both jobs the cable co wants it to do.
>

I believe here is where all of us fortunate souls who get Astound get
to sit back and enjoy our full HD programming over firewire.  There
are alternatives; too bad for others they are not ubiquitous.