[mythtv-users] HDPVR for $169 at buy.com

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> But they are only required to give you firewire output for the channels they are not allowed to encrypt, generally only the
> local off-air channels.

No, they're required to give you firewire output for everything you
pay for, but they're allowed to use 5C encryption to do it.  From a
mythtv point of view, you can equate this with not giving it to you,
but the point of the FCC mandate was to support firewire enabled
televisions, not recording devices.

Eric