[mythtv-users] Questions for Silicon Dust founder Nick Kelsey

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Sharkey" <eric at lisaneric.org>

> Will we be able to get programmatic access to the channel mapping
> between the virtual channel number used by the Prime with a card
> installed and the frequencies and program id numbers needed to tune
> traditional clear-qam tuners such as the original HDHR?
> 
> Will there be an easy way to probe the current copy control
> information for a given channel?
> 
> Has Silicon Dust considered producing a future product with analog
> video outputs? (In other words, a purchasable Set Top Box
> controllable via ethernet.)
> 
> Or perhaps a single box which could integrate the functions of the
> HDHR Prime with a video decoder and a re-encoder (something like the
> Hauppague 1212 HDPVR) which could then deliver re-encoded video via
> ethernet, regardless of the broadcasters' CCI settings?

In short, "will no one rid us of these troublesome" copyright holders, who
don't want to give us what we're paying for in a format we can actually,
y'know, *use*?  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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