[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime update

[Steven Adeff]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but only channels/shows set with the Copy Free flag will be
>> recordable in MythTV. Without the required DRM assurance the device
>> will not be allowed to send those channels to the computer. So
>> basically what you can get with a firewire connected cablebox, but
>> with, hopefully, 100% tuning and recording accuracy.
>
> Is there, yet, any project underway to collect reports from subscribers
> to various digital cable systems as to which channels are copy-free?

Not yet to my understanding, though generally Comcast has everything
up to basic digital cable Copy Free and only the Premium and some of
second tier digital cable channels blocked.

> Could Myth itself do that, and submit such lineup data to a central DB,
> with user permission?

Probably. But it would probably be easier to write a python or perl
script to take the channel lineup associated with a firewire connected
cable box to output the channels in a fashion that could be added to
the mythtv wiki easily.



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