[mythtv-users] Damn you Time Warner

[Sean Goodpasture]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:54 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:23:06PM -0500, Sean Goodpasture wrote:
> > 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?!
>
>   Man that's low. That's basically PBS. It's not even the History Channel
> or Food Network.
>
> [deletia]
>
> > >
> > >
> > 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...
>
>    Yeah but with a Tivo you are stuck storing really large MPEG2 files.
> That's going to wipe out your storage fast. This will be the case even
> with the decked out Weaknees unit, never even mind a stock Tivo.
>
>    Have you seen the size of some of the files that an OTA capture can
> generate? Even with compression they are rather huge.
>
>    Having old style S1 compression really is a dramatic advantage over
> any other newer sort of Tivo.
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I mostly record HD over QAM (so bout 8-9 gigs/hr).  I've got a 500 gig drive
and it rarely gets over 60% full.

Storage space isn't a big deal (a 1tb drive is what, $180 these days?)
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