It looks like Comcast has enabled the "Digital Content Protection" on basic cable channels in my area today (Naperville, IL, Romeoville Head End I think). I sat down to watch "The Daily Show" and noticed that the recording file didn't exist, did a scan with my hdhomerun and found that basically all of the non-advertising non-local channels were marked as encrypted. I sent off a nastygram to comcast, but I assume that will lead me nowhere.<br>
<br>So, I had looked at DISH and DirectTV in the past, saw that the would be cheaper, but since I was getting most of what I wanted on comcast without having to have a bunch of boxes/ir blasters/hdpvrs... I stuck with comcast. Since comcast has lost it's competitive advantage with me, I need to do some digging to figure out which is better.<br>
<br>I'll connect my HDHomerun to an old antenna in the attic to get OTA stuff, which will get 80% of the recordings I want, but I can think of about 6 channels that I would like to record quite a few shows from, Bravo, Comedy Central, History Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, USA. There are probably a few others as well.<br>
<br>Anyone have any recommendations? I know I'll need to get a box that provides Component Video out, and get an HDHomerun. I'll need to figure out how to control the box (probably an IR blaster). I may need to upgrade a few of my front ends to use VDPAU. Any other gotcha's? <br>
<br>Thanks for any input.<br><br>Bill<br>