[mythtv-users] Building new Mythtv Box

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Kevin Ross <kevin at familyross.net> wrote:
> On 1/11/2011 7:16 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Kevin Ross wrote
>>> With FIOS, the only way to record HD is with a Hauppauge  HD-PVR.
>>
>> Uh. No. Certainly not the case with my own FiOS feed. I can record
>> plenty of clear QAM HD material with a digital video capture card,
>> and another chunk of HD material via firewire. There are relatively
>> few channels that can *only* be recorded with an HD-PVR.
>
> I can't get anything but locals via clear QAM or Firewire, I've tried both
> with my FIOS TV service.  I wasn't aware that other regions could get more.

If you told me that the responsibility for setting the the copy
control information on Fios channels had been delegated to a drunk
monkey, I wouldn't be able to argue with that.  I have a lot of
standard definition channels marked as copy-once that are unreachable
over firewire, while the HD version of the same channel is marked as
copy-freely and works.  I even have at least one local PBS station (in
HD) which is broadcast in clear QAM and tunes just fine on my HDHR,
but is marked as copy-once (or was it copy-never?  I forget) and won't
tune via firewire.

In what world that makes sense I can't say, but I get enough of the
channels I care about via firewire that I don't want to stir the
hornet's nest by investigating.

Eric