[mythtv-users] Does HDHR Prime work with Time Warner in North Texas

[David Engel]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 04:14:09PM -0600, John Nissley wrote:
> One of my hdhr's is finally dead due to some fault of my own and I am 
> now trying to determine if I can even make use of the HDHR prime.  I 
> have Time Warner cable in North Dallas Texas and from what I initially 
> read it appeared the copy once bit would be an issue for me in my area.  
> I have also read that I can not really test via firewire and a Time 
> Warner STB because it will not correctly provide me the information 
> about the copy bit.
> 
> I contacted Time Warner and asked if they have a cable card that works 
> with TIVO because I understand that tivo has the same copy bit 
> restriction as mythtv and they said that they have a cable card that 
> works with TIVO.  Does this mean I can order an HDHR Prime and a cable 
> card and watch most of the channels that the STB gives me?

No.  Everything except locals is locked donw with Time Warner and
can't be accessed with a cable card from Linux.  Your only choice if
you want to use the HDHR Prime or Ceton InfiniTV4 (what I have) with
MythTV is Verizon FIOS.  I'm in Garland and switched from TWC to FIOS
last Fall because of this and have been very happy with the results.

TiVo's work mostly fine with TWC.  You're probably confused by the
Tivo functionality that doesn't work with TWC -- moving recordings to
a PC or between TiVo's.  That's because TWC set the DRM to strict for
that functionality.

David
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