[mythtv-users] CCI=none vs. CCI=any SF Bay Area

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Fri Apr 26 18:34:25 UTC 2013


On 4/26/2013 11:20 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/26/2013 01:50 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> On 4/26/2013 10:44 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> As I understand it, 'any' means we can access it explicitly, while 
>>>> 'none'
>>>> means
>>>> there is no CCI code and it falls back to older forms of copy 
>>>> protection
>>>> flagging
>>>> that may be in use, such as CGMS.  If those stations are independently
>>>> flagging
>>>> their content coming across their feed to the cable headend, the 
>>>> cablecard
>>>> tuner will refuse MythTV access.
>>> It was my recollection that after some "negotiation"/"clarification"
>>> with cablelabs it was agreed that if the cci was none that the
>>> cgms values should be ignored for purposes of the prime being
>>> able to tune channels.
>>>
>>
>> My Prime seems to be doing fine. That's my fallback - I'll delete the 
>> problem channels from the Classic channel lineups. But I'm hoping to 
>> get my Classics back on-line too. I still do a lot of recording on 
>> the OTA channels. Probably more than the cable channels.
>
> Antenna possible?  Could try getting your OTA via the air...
>

Oh yeah, I've had a really nice unidirectional antenna sitting in the 
garage for a year. Problems are 1. the HOA and 2. sitting in a bit of a 
valley.

Anyway, is the answer that Classics will *not* work with CCI=none? Has 
anybody had any success whining to Comcast about these settings?




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