[mythtv-users] Best Sat receiver for Dish Network
Raphael Pooser
rpooser at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 21:49:21 UTC 2006
Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/08/2006 04:04 PM, Raphael Pooser wrote:
>
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 03/07/06 23:41, Brian Wood wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm only looking for SD.
>>>>
>>> Good because that's all you'll get from a satellite system (unless you
>>> feel running a Windows box to convert 169time's proprietary firewire
>>> output into MPEG-2 that can be fed to your Myth box is actually acceptable).
>>>
>> Really, you can't get HD from Dish Network?
>>
>
> Not into your Myth box. Proprietary, encrypted signals that require a
> STB for decoding. 169time mods DirecTV receivers to output HDTV via
> firewire, but it's in a proprietary format that requires a Windows
> program to decode. Only people I've heard of who have made it work with
> Myth had the STB outputting via firewire to a Windows box which output
> via firewire to the Myth box. It's a waste of a perfectly-good computer
> if you ask me...
>
>
>> I thought these dish
>> companies did have some HD channels. Does that leave the only HD stuff
>> coming through digital cable and OTA (non satellite, like terrestrial)?
>>
>
> Yep. And the digital cable is only what's left unencrypted by your
> cable provider--and they have been known to change the list of encrypted
> channels at a whim... It's likely you'll only get high definition on
> the same channels you can get for free over the air via cable. (Many
> claim that the cable provider must provide those channels unencrypted,
> but that's only one interpretation of the law that was created before
> high-definition digital TV standards...)
>
> Mike
>
>
>
Thanks Mike and Brian for the clarifications. My, HD is not quite what
I want it to be yet. Course I'm not saying anything new here anyway.
Raphael
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