[mythtv-users] What's the point of MythTV HD?

[Ken Mandelberg]

What's really missing here is a cable card HD tuner that MythTV could 
access. A cablecard hdhomerun would be optimal, and since CableLabs has 
blessed DTCP-IP it seems that one is possible. This would work a whole 
lot better than renting an expensive HD cablebox and manipulating it 
with a blaster to get a single channel of flakey firewire output.

Even that would still only get the CCI=0 content, but thats a whole lot 
more HD than unencrypted QAM.

Another alternative is buying an HD Tivo, which allows ethernet 
transfers of CCI=0 content with TTG. The box price is reasonable, but 
the monthly is expensive for treating it as a tuner. (I've also heard 
that there is a hardware prom hack that makes the Tivo hackable).