[mythtv-users] Damn you Time Warner

Sean Goodpasture goofygrin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 21:23:06 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Sean Goodpasture wrote:
> > So I finally got a Firewire card to test with the Motorola 6200...  It
> > works decently, except that stupid Time Warner has marked dang near
> > everything with the no copy or copy once flag so I can't record much of
> > anything.
> >
> > I can understand the movie channels, but Noggin?  Seriously?!
> >
>
> Sean,
>
> Did you ever end up with any more luck with TW in your area?  Are you by
> chance
> the Austin, TX area?  Since you mentioned Uverse competing with TW and
> all.  I'm
> down here and just picked up a SA4240HDC yesterday.  I've been fighting a
> losing
> battle in attempting to get it functional for many channels.
>
> It seems the only stuff that is coming in is the local hidef stations and
> BBC
> America.  They take away all my analog stations and all the other stuff.
>
> I'm debating escalating this up higher, but if you've already done it and
> lost,
> i'm not sure it's worth the effort.  I've read some posts in the past (not
> on
> the Myth list, but other lists), where people have managed to get in
> contact
> with the actual cable engineers and get the CCI bits fixed correctly.
>
> In the example post that I was reading, it turns out that the cable
> company was
> taking the Broadcast Flag bit (yeah you know the one that was shot down)
> and
> using it to determine when to put some CCI bits in place.  The guy managed
> to
> get it flipped on all of the stations he wanted and happy ending.
>
> I wish I lived in a fairy tale land that I could threaten to move to
> another
> cable co like you guys list in this thread.  Threatening to go to uverse
> probably won't solve anything....
>
> --
> Mario Limonciello
> mario.mailing at gmail.com
>
>
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I'm in the Dallas area, and I gave up, returned my receivers and lowered my
tier to analog only.  I'm closely watching the new Hauppage devices.  At
$250 each, I'm not sure if I'd get them or not.  For $250, I'm most of the
way to a Tivo with a couple cable cards...
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