[mythtv-users] FCC releases CableCard changes

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>>> On 10/15/2010 15:25, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody care to pontificate on how this affects a MythTV / CableCard
>>>>> collaboration?
>>>>
>>>> None at all.  The release deals with the availability, pricing, and
>>>> installation of customer owned CableCard hardware.  It makes no mention on
>>>> access restrictions on content made available through CableCard devices.
>>>>
>>>> You'll be able to lease a card, and have a tech that is properly trained on
>>>> how to install it, but you're still going to be limited to the 'copy freely'
>>>> content.
>>>
>>> As it is, I'd be happy to get a 3- or 4-tuner Linux-compatible
>>> CableCard box that could tune "copy freely" content.
>>
>> except nothing will be set to "copy freely"...
>
> Not in my case.

yet.

I still have a good number of copy freely channels that I capture over
firewire as well.

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Steve
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