[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun Prime up for pre-order at Amazon

Greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Mon May 2 21:19:46 UTC 2011


On 05/02/2011 05:05 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 16:49, Greg wrote:
>> On 05/02/2011 12:39 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Greg<greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>>     It would be nice if the  HDHR-P would work under Linux,but  I think
>>>> you are going find there is going too be a lot of disappointed people..
>>>> Here in Northern NY,the only channels that are in the clear are the
>>>> locals...
>>> Just to be clear, are you positive you are talking about cablecard
>>> copy restrictions, and not just encryption? Channels that are
>>> encrypted and marked copy-freely will work perfectly fine in myth with
>>> a HDHR-prime, but will NOT be viewable with a QAM tuner. I haven't
>>> seen many reports from people anywhere saying that their cablecard
>>> setups aren't marked copy-freely for the non-premium channels, so I
>>> just want to make sure you aren't mixed up on the
>>> technology/terminology.
>> I Just got done with putting my STB (Samsung smt-3260) in the diagnostic
>> mode. It allows you to check each channel.. My report is locals and a
>> few shopping channels report as copy freely,the rest are reported as
>> copy once,even the test bar channel is copy once..... I don't know if
>> the HDPVR-P will handle copy once.. If I understand copy once
>> correctly,you should be able to record to a PC and play your recording
>> on that PC only...I could live with that...
> The HDHR-P will handle 'copy once' and 'copy never' content just fine.
> It requires the receiving program to be certified by CableLabs, and
> authorized to access that content.  MythTV is neither of those, and so
> the HDHR-P will only send it the DRM-free 'copy freely' content.  The
> only application capable of receiving such content from the HDHR-P will
> be WMC Vista and 7.
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Yup,That's what I thought....I'll go back to my original 
statement..There's going too be a lot of disappointed people.... I would 
like to get rid of my STB's,but not at the expense of switching to 
Windows... I'll deal with what I have,it works well..


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