a bummer indeed. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Robert McNamara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Josh White <<a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com">jaw1959@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This question may have been asked, but I couldn't find anything in my<br>
> searches...can I buy an HD digital cable box and get a card from time<br>
> warner...one that would work better with myth, such as having control<br>
> capabilities via usb/firewire, etc? Has anyone in mythtv-land tried this?<br>
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Firstly, most (all?) US cable providers won't allow you to "bring your<br>
own box" (although I think they require them to allow it in Canada).<br>
Secondly, and more importantly, the box would behave identically to<br>
any other box of that type on a provider's network, as the enabling of<br>
ports/capabilities/encryption is all set by policies that are<br>
downloaded from the headend, not locally on the box itself. In short,<br>
you generally can't, and it wouldn't help if you could.<br>
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Which is a bummer.<br>
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Robert<br>
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