<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Jay Ashworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> From: "Matt Emmott" <<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> The first part of that paragraph is awesome and I hope that SD<br>
> really showcases that feature - If I'm reading it correctly, it works as a<br>
> 3-tuner QAM recorder out of the box, correct? And it has an internal splitter<br>
> so it only needs one coax input? I plan on renting a cable card when I buy<br>
> one, but I just wanted to make sure that I'm understanding this feature<br>
> correctly.<br>
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</div>It's one box, with one F-connector and one Ethernet, and has 3 physical tuners.<br>
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If you put in a Cablecard, then each physical tuner can pass one decrypted<br>
Program Stream to the Mythbox for recording.<br>
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If you don't put in a Cablecard, then each physical tuner can pass one<br>
Transport Stream to the Mythbox for multirec processing (a "mux" or<br>
"multiplex"), but while you can record up to $SOFTMUXLIMIT programs from<br>
each of those three multiplexes, none of them can be encrypted.<br>
<br>
So it's either a 3-tuner encrypted-QAM box, or a "15"-tuner clear-QAM<br>
box, but not both. If you want lots of programs, and have good muxes<br>
for that, but you *still* want to record encrpyted things, you'll need<br>
two (or the upcoming rackmount model which effectively *is* two),<br>
with a Cablecard in only one.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-- jra<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>This thread inspired me to pass along the question to SD.<div><br></div><div>Response: "Unfortunately this is not allowed for an OCUR device."<div><div><br><div><a href="http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9907">http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9907</a></div>
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