[mythtv-users] Ceton InfiniTV 4

[jedi]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 02:10:12PM -0400, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> > wrote:
> > >  On 8/30/2010 12:37, Phil Bridges wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Chris Pinkham<cpinkham at bc2va.org>
> > >>  wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 09:32:27AM -0400, Bryan Cromwell wrote:
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> > >
> > > Please understand the limitations of such a tuner card.  As MythTV will
> > > likely never be licensed by CableLabs, all we will be able to capture is
> > > that content which the tuner outputs unencrypted.  That means content
> > marked
> > > copy-freely.  This card will replace firewire capture off STBs, but not
> > > analog capture.
> >
> > I absolutely understand the limitations.  My cable headend has nearly
> > everything except Premiums marked copy-freely, so this card could
> > replace 4 Firewire-equipped cable boxes.
> >
> 
> Who's your cable provider?  And how do a I tell this?  I have TWC, and they
> only unencrypt straight through cable the OTA channels (cbs/fox/cw/etc.) but
> with a CableCard cabable device are you saying I could get basically
> everything but the premiums (ie get discovery/espn/etc which are given free
> if i rent a cable box)?  Just trying to understand all of this.

    Frankly, I would never be able to trust the cable company not to screw
me over at some later date. I would rather have an output that I know I can
always record from even if it is a degraded one.

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