Yeah, but you need multiple cable boxes to record multiple programs at once. That's a pain....<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brett Kosinski</b> <<a href="mailto:fancypantalons@gmail.com">
fancypantalons@gmail.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;"><br><div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I heard that my cable company (Comcast), as well as most others, are in the process of phasing out analog cable with the intent to support only digital cable. Since so may of us depend on PVR capture cards and analog cable, it looks like we are pretty much screwed, unless I missed something. Firewire capture seems flaky at best, and when it does work, we are at the mercy of the cable company to leave the content unencrypted. There is always OTA HD capture, but that just delivers a handful of channels.
<br><br>Is the day coming when we will have to scrap our Myth boxes and use those crappy DVRs provided by the cable companies?</blockquote></span><div><br>Nah. For SD capture, you can always grab a plain-jane digital tuner and use IR blasters (or, if you're lucky, the serial port) to control it from Myth. Sure, the cabling can be a bit messy, but it works like a charm.
<br><br>In my case, I have two Motorola 2524s connected to a pair of PVR-150s driven by <a href="http://irblaster.info" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">irblaster.info</a> blasters. Works perfectly, and I get full access to both the analog and digital tier.
<br><br>Brett.<br></div></div>
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