I just had this thought: what if you just don't get the certification? What is stopping open source hardware makers from coming up with a cablecard compliant device is the difficulty of obtaining the certification so:<br>
<br>- Request the specs, they will give you a fight, on every roadblock complain to the FCC.<br>- Build the device and don't get it certified, just request a cablecard from the cable company. If they refuse, file complaints with the FCC. They may say "it's not certified" so what? It should work anyways, shouldn't it?
<br><br>It may take a little bit of a fight but I think is doable. Now, any hardware makers up to the task?<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Omer</b> <<a href="mailto:bill.omer@gmail.com">
bill.omer@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;">On 8/17/07, Victor Perez <<a href="mailto:spectro@gmail.com">
spectro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I went HDTV a couple of weeks ago and picked up the cable's DVR until I<br>> figured how to make mythtv to work with HDTV. Yesterday I got my cable bill<br>> and my TV service pretty much doubled by adding HDTV tier and $14 for "DVR
<br>> service".<br>><br>> I already got myth to get some HDTV through firewire so I am returning their<br>> DVR this weekend but I will not have access to some of the channels I am<br>> paying for, I care less for most of them but not having ESPN2HD and TNTHD
<br>> (NBA games) is going to suck (ok, the chicks on HDNET's "Get out" are pretty<br>> hot but they talk so much it gets old pretty quick)<br>><br>> I looked all over the internet for retail Cablecard enabled STB and it seems
<br>> the cable companies have succeeded in keeping their STB monopoly regardless<br>> of FCC regulations.<br>><br><br>Your cable companies DVR is your cablecard set top box. Currently<br>there is no way to get an HDTV signal from the wall, unless is
<br>unencrypted. You may be able to use QAM to get some channels, but it<br>wont be the premiums. You will probably get the same channels, if not<br>more, from Off The Air.<br><br>ATI did release a capture card with cablecard support earlier this
<br>year. It's not being sold to the public yet I believe, and it's meant<br>to only work with Microsoft's Media Center. Hopefully in the near<br>future we can have cablecard access in MythTV, but sadly right now,
<br>it's not possible. Using firewire on your DVR from the cable company<br>might be your best bet, unless you can live without the premium<br>channels.<br><br>-Bill<br>_______________________________________________
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