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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/9/2016 10:32 AM, Greg Woods wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Gary
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<div id=":15v" class="a3s aXjCH m1570f2693d1867de">But
while CableCARDs<br>
are mandated to still be viable for seven years(*),<br>
viability will, as always, be in the eyes of the<br>
beholder.</div>
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Thanks to everyone who replied on this thread. It appears that
the situation, as it always does when Comcast is involved,
sucks for anyone who doesn't want to be trapped in their
corporate silo. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">It is clear that my HD-PVRs are dead
now, or at least as soon as Comcast finishes making whatever
format changes they have in mind (they gave a date of Oct. 31;
I don't know if that's a hard deadline, but I have to assume
it is). The HD-PVRs of course will still work, but the set-top
boxes they depend on will no longer be usable, and the
replacement boxes Comcast offers will likely not work.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">For the present, I can most likely keep
my MythTV system going for a few more years by switching to a
CableCard-based tuner, so that's my immediate plan. I don't
get any premium channels so I don't care that those are not
available this way, but I understand that channels may start
gradually becoming unavailable to this tuner, so I will have a
crappy Comcast DVR box to catch those (at least the new crappy
DVR looks to be considerably better than the old crappy DVR,
but of course it will never have 8TB of storage or instant
commercial skip). If enough channels that I watch regularly
become unavailable, then that will be when my MythTV system
will be declared dead and I'll have to get another set-top box
for the basement TV and rely just on Comcast DVR. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">This depressing picture holds unless
the laws change radically in this country (USA), but since the
MPAA owns our politicians, it seems unlikely to change in my
lifetime. For now I have ordered an HDHomerun Prime and a USB
3.0 NIC. I realize a dedicated NIC isn't really required, but
I have no free ports on the basement switch where the backend
lives and I have problems with my current HDHomerun tuner
producing unwatchable recordings about half the time (OTA).
This could be due to packet loss (seems unlikely since all my
network switches are gigabit, but they are also crappy
consumer-grade Netgear switches), bad reception (I have no way
to tell if that is happening), or maybe the HDHR power supply
(these are infamous but I'm pretty sure I've already replaced
it once). At any rate this is a pain to diagnose, and a USB
NIC is cheaper than buying a switch with more ports, and using
a dedicated NIC at least eliminates one possible cause of
issues for a networked tuner.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">--Greg</div>
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<p>With the HDHR + OTA, did you try using a powered cable amplifier?<br>
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