[mythtv-users] can I buy my own digital cable box for use with Time warner digital cable?

[Deyan]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:14 PM, freedenizen <freedenizen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Josh White wrote:
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>> This question may have been asked, but I couldn't find anything in my searches...can I buy an HD digital cable box and get a card from time warner...one that would work better with myth, such as having control capabilities via usb/firewire, etc?  Has anyone in mythtv-land tried this?
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> In theory there should be cablecard STBs out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD
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> In reality I don't know anyone that is using one.

The Motorola DCH-3200 (and possibly others) has a CableCard -
http://www.motorola.com/business/US-EN/DCH3200_US-EN.do?vgnextoid=bbec9e3eeed46110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD

I have it and it came with the CableCard pre-installed.

--dejan