[mythtv-users] Interfacing with cable fox Time Werner then FIOS

[MailingListJ]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2009 19:09:39 MailingListJ wrote:
>   
>> greg wrote:
>>     
>>> MailingListJ wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>  So I'm looking for some help... I'm having a hard time finding how
>>>> to interface with my Time Werner cable box, I will be switching to
>>>> FIOS sometime in the future if I can but not at this current moment.
>>>> Any ideas on how to get this off the ground so that I can get HD into
>>>> my foxes.  The next problem which I saw discussion about was trans
>>>> coding on the fly from HD to SD for my other TVs... any ideas?
>>>> -J
>>>>         
> The only reasonable option to get baseband HD into a Myth system these days is 
> the HD-PVR-1212, unless you can get a working FireWire setup, but that won't 
> get you encrypted channels that you pay for.
>   
Ok, so I would have to do that and then that was just record the HD 
outputs from the box, would I be able to tune the box with firewire or 
would I need a blaster, and its setup as a USB dev? Is there support for 
this setup already or will I be writing a lot of my own setup? Can it 
only do one input at a time? (looks like that the case)
thanks
-J