[mythtv-users] Comcast goes Mpeg4 in Atlanta

[Karl Newman]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
> ....
> > Oh, I'm on Comcast in the SF Bay Area. I'm just getting my ducks in a
> row. I
> > assume this will happen to us at some point.
>
> Quack-Quack-Quack (the ducks are aligned).
>
> If one wants to test MythTV for H.264 playback, there
> are a number of free demo's out there (just download
> a copy of Big Buck Bunny or one of the other blender
> rendered videos) and throw them into your videos folder.
>
> Certainly (well, almost certainly) the transition will happen
> in the SF Bay Area, but only Comcast knows when.  In
> theory they should be able to move more quickly than the
> encryption of basic (because far fewer customers will be
> impacted and/or need new equipment), but it will still require
> training of CSRs to handle the calls, which takes time.
> Personally, I will be happy when they do my area, mostly
> to make it easier to play back the recordings on devices
> without MPEG2 hardware decoding enabled/supported
> (i.e. mobile devices).  The savings is space will be a
> bonus.
>

This is welcome news to me. I'm on Comcast in the Bay Area and I'd been
holding out on getting a CableCard device because of the promise of the
SiliconDust transcoding version (for 3-4 years now...!). Maybe they figured
this transition was inevitable and the business case no longer made sense
for that product. Anyway, that means the now-cheap OG HDHR Prime will serve
the purpose for me. I'll have to watch for it on woot the next time they
have them up for sale.

Thanks,

Karl
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