[mythtv-users] Cablecard spec change undermining CCI Copy Freely flags

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> .... A user who lives just a
> few streets away with the same cable provider is getting no CCI and no CGSM
> flags on channels were I do see CGMS flags.

Possible a different headend (with a different config)?
Some areas were built up in the most interesting way.
Since there has to be a boundary somewhere (there is
not just one cable crossing the entire country, or even
one city), one can find that one's neighbor is on a
different headend for good engineering reasons.  And
sometimes bad reasons, too.  I happen to live close
enough to another cities boundary (about 150 yards)
that the cable provider uses the headend nominally
assigned to that other city (which ended up
causing me some grief getting my first CableCARD
activated, since the MSO kept pushing the config
to what they believed should be my headend.)
Anyway, even next door neighbors can end up
with different headend assignments.