[mythtv-users] Optimum Cable Copy Once creep

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Lars Olav Husebo <larsolav75 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> >>> Heads up on more Copy Once! I'm on Optimum Cable on Long Island for
> >>> three years now, and until recently all "non-premium" channels (e.g.
> >>> CNN, Disney Channel, Comedy Centra, Cartoon Network, NIck, some
> >>> sports channels, etc) were CCI labeled copy freely and "premium"
> >>> channels (e.g. Disney XD, TeeNick, sports and movie channels, etc) were
> >>> labeled copy once. However, since this summer more and more
> >>> "non-premium" channels are getting the Copy Once tag. Over the summer
> >>> at least TBS, TNT, and USA networks got it. And just a week ago Comedy
> >>> Central, CNN, Cartoon Network, and Nick among others were switched to
> >>> Copy Once! I'd say well over half of the "non-premium" non-broadcast
> >>> channels have Copy Once tags. I gave them a call, and was told by a
> >>> supervisor that, yes, that is the way it is going...
> >>>
> >>> So now I will have to bite the bullet and install a Windows 7 machine
> >>> for those channels until HDHomerun DVR actually works with Copy Once
> >>> protected channels.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> What's your Windows 7 solution?
> >>
> >
> > My Windows 7 solution is Windows Media Center. MCE is certified to work
> with the HDHomerun Prime to record copy once tagged programming. It is a
> bit outdated, not as nice as Mythtv, but is the only option currently
> available for Cable Cards and not needing a cable company set top box.
>
> And my abbreviation skills are lacking. I mean of course WMC. Not
> MCE.......
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Even if you were able to get 8 years out of WMC, I am not confident that
CableCard support will last that long. Support was essentially nonexistent
until the FCC mandated their use in MSO supplied STBs in 2007. The MSOs
have been advocating the removal of the requirement ever since.

As Gary pointed out, it impossible to know what the future will hold.

-Tom
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