[mythtv-users] Motorola DCX3200-M

[Scot Kreienkamp]

The method in the past to capture from an HD set top box has been HDPVR to
capture HD or SD analog from a set top box, and (at least here in the
states where it's mandated by law) firewire connection to tune it.  The law
allows us to record broadcast or cable TV in the US as much as I care to as
long as it's for personal use, even if I break copy protection in the
process.  YMMV for Canada.



On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Now that I'm up to speed with new hardware and upgrade OS and MythTV I'm
> looking at adding new stuff: digital SD/HD.
>
> I already have a PVR-500 giving me plenty of good analog SD service from a
> channel line-up that's 90% of my historical viewing. I have another one
> sitting in my old machine as a spare or to add to the new box.
>
> I have a Motorola DCT-700 still sitting in the box from my cable provider
> (Shaw in Canada) and that seems a logical first addition. It only does
> composite out so I figure I can pick up a PVR-150 to capture from the DCT
> exclusively and work out the channel-change and recording priorities for
> the handful of channels worth getting from digital. Does that sound right?
>
> However, Shaw is also offering a "HD Box" (their words) that, after a
> couple calls to verify, I won't have to add some new plan and that the box
> could replace the DCT-700 - I'd get the digital SD I'd get with the DCT,
> and "HD Basic". It's a Motorola DCX3200-M single-tuner HD box for $138 that
> will get a dozen or so HD channels from the plan that I'm paying for
> already.
>
> There's not a lot of current info from Google about these boxes and Myth.
> Apparently it's workable, at least a couple years ago. Anyone using this
> box?  Do I need a capture card for it? Can be used in Fedora 22?
> IR-blaster-able?
>
> https://community.shaw.ca/docs/DOC-1281
>
>
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> A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca
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