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

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> From anecdotal evidence on this forum, good luck getting a Cablecard that actually works with that gadget...

I suspect that your evidence is skewed.  Silicon Dust has shown
themselves to be a competent company and if TiVo can pull it off I
have every confidence that SD can do it as well.

Most of the reports I've heard of people trying to get cable cards for
devices that need them eventually end in success, even if it takes
three or four visits by a technician to get it set up.  If you have
the perseverance to keep pushing the cable company, they will get it
working.

That said, it doesn't really help us out much.  I suppose you could
use it as a build-your-own ownable cable box, with cable -> HDHRP ->
Windows 7 -> HDMI -> HD Fury 2 -> HDPVR -> mythtv, with custom
software to do channel changing on this "tuner", but that sounds like
a lot of work to get running smoothly.

Sometimes it almost seems like the cable operators must want us to use
bittorrent.

Eric