[mythtv-users] Ceton InfiniTV 4
jedi
jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Aug 31 00:59:02 UTC 2010
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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