[mythtv-users] Time Warner encrypting everything. HDHR Prime with CableCard unable to record anything.

[Philip Nourse]

On 15/01/2015 1:27 PM, Philip Nourse wrote:
>
> On 15/01/2015 1:22 PM, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Philip Nourse <pjn at pobox.com 
>> <mailto:pjn at pobox.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 15/01/2015 3:02 AM, Lee Maisel wrote:
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>>         Sounds like a class-action lawsuit is in order.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         On 1/14/2015 1:18 AM, Bob Sully wrote:
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>>
>>             Pardon the dumb question...but do I have any recourse? 
>>             An antenna is pretty much a no-go, as I'm in a real
>>             fringe area. Right now the HD-PVR is handling everything,
>>             which means only one recording at a time.
>>
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>>     I only use OTA, so I am not familiar with the issues at hand, but
>>     I am a little bit curious.  Did Silicondust actually implement
>>     firmware to respect the copy flags?  What would compel them to do
>>     that?   Is it because the cable card now enforces the protection?
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>> It is important to not confuse Silicondust's regular ATSC/QAM 
>> HDHomeRun tuners with their CableCard/QAM HDHomeRun PRIME tuners. The 
>> regular HDHR tuners tune and stream unencrypted OTA/cable content. 
>> The HDHR PRIME tuners tune, decrypt, authenticate, copy protect, and 
>> stream cable content that is encrypted. These tuner have always been 
>> required to respect copy protection to be certified by CableLabs, the 
>> authoritative group made up of cablecos.
>>
>> I hope that is clear and mostly correct. Someone correct me if left 
>> out any details.
>>
>> -Tom
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> So certification is required before the cable card will work?
>

Never mind.  Just looked it up.  Basically, the cable card will only 
work after it verifies the certification of the HDPVR.  Basically, the 
cable companies have found another way to screw over MythTV users.

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