[mythtv-users] Damn you Time Warner

[jedi]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Sean Goodpasture wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
> 

    Well, TV is a vast wasteland. This is even more true when it comes to
a small number of OTA channels.

> 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.

    The fact that I haven't found a 40/80 hour PVR to be sufficient for a 
LONG time was one of the main reasons I built a Myth.

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

    In terms of hourly capacity, my S1 has more space than that.

    The idea isn't so much to watch it all, just to have it available
when you want it and if you want it. A fat PVR is like video on demand
almost.