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

[Mike Perkins]

On 15/01/15 18:42, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:29 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> ....
>> IIRC, buried in the Consolidated Federal Regulations Title 47, Part 76(???)
>> is a requirement that cableco's CANNOT encrypt the 'must-carry' stations
>
> Note that almost no channel is using "must-carry"
> (with the exception of local shopping channels that
> use "must-carry" to get on the cable), most use
> "consent" which gets them money (I suspect
> PBS may also use "must carry").
>
> Secondly, when I read the regs a number of years
> ago I noted that the requirement was only if the
> content was sent in the clear (i.e. analogue or
> clear QAM) then the cable providers could not
> add in macrovision/CGMS/etc.  If the content was
> fully encrypted in transmission (which is what TWC
> has moved to), the rules did not apply (although
> if you want to provide the actual updated regulation
> ref that overrides that, please do so; not the entire
> CFR 47 ref).
>
> That all said, TWC has, in the past, mis-marked
> OTA channel copy protections in some markets
> as part of their encryption roll-out.  It is worth opening
> a ticket.
>
Aren't they supposed to offer you some kind of Terminal Adapter when they do 
that? What about folks who can't or won't upgrade their TVs?

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Mike Perkins