Michael,<br>
<br>
I was not offended one bit! Where are these lists? I looked
on <a href="http://mythtv.org">mythtv.org</a> and it brought me to the email lists....I assume that you
are talking about something other than the email lists?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Ted<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Bochynski</b> <<a href="mailto:mbochynski@audiumcorp.com">mbochynski@audiumcorp.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ted,<span class="q"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 16:29 -0500, Ted Manka wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="CITE">
<font color="#000000">Great! Thanks
a ton Michael. Will MythTV also be able to change channels? I
know that from each of these boxes that it can output one channel at a
time. For example digital cable will have signal go into the
tuner box and then out to the television. In the box, the digital
channels are decrypted (I think that is how it works) and then the box
only outputs one channel in the coax cable to the television. Can
MythTV decode the digital channels before it gets to the box? Is
there a way around that? I am sure that I just don't have a full
understanding of the way that this works. Please excuse the
newbie questions.</font><br>
<br>
<font color="#000000">Thanks,</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Ted</font><br>
<br>
</blockquote></span>
I strongly suggest asking questions on the list, instead of the emails. There are a lot of smart people over there.<br>
<br>
With that said, quick answer for you. Will MythTV be able to change
channels? Yes, however you would need an IR blaster. It's a small
device, connected to your PC, which, when you change channels in
MythTV, sends a signal to a cable/satellite/FIOS box to change channel
on this box. You can think of it as programming your TV remote to
change channels on the cable box. <br>
<br>
Going further with TV comparisons, MythTV sits AFTER your cable box,
the very same way as your TV, not BEFORE the cable box. Hence,
the TV signal from your wall goes to a cable box FIRST and THEN to
MythTV and all the decoding (allowing output signal) will be handled by
the cable box, not MythTV. So if you are looking for decoding
(watching) channels which you are not subscribed to, MythTV is not what
you are looking for. BTW, if your cable box has S-Video out (most
likely that's the case) you don't have to use coax cable. Actually, you
shouldn't use coax cable if you have any kind of tv service (physical
box provided to you by your tv operator).<br>
<br>
I know that I can offend many people on the list, but using a great
(humongous) simplicity, MythTV has the same functionality as TV and VCR
together. Obviously there is much more, but I don't want to overload
you with the information.<br>
<br>
Here is the (full) explanation form MythTV project site:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1</a><br><span class="sg">
<br>
Michael
</span><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>