[mythtv-users] HDTV Tuner Cards - Please catch me up a few years

Nicolas Riendeau knight at teksavvy.com
Mon Sep 13 01:12:49 UTC 2010


On 9/12/2010 9:02 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>> Aha.  I'd noticed the wording that it 'builds on the success of the HDHomeRun', and assumed that meant it would continue to have both QAM and ATSC tuners.  Reading more closely, the press release only mentions "digital cable tuners" which leaves out OTA.  Bummer.  I was looking to add one to my set-up.
>>
> It also only mentions Windows. I did not see a single mention of linux
> support for the cable card tuner.

http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9152

Essentially only support for copy-freely encrypted channels. It is not 
because they don't want to provide it, it's because they can't...

Nick


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