[mythtv-users] Easy Cable Box Integration

[Jeff Clark]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Jeff Clark wrote:
>  > I've come to the sad realization that the cable in my area is all
>  > digital and encrypted and that I need the box for what I want to
>  > watch.
>
>  I thought they were supposed to, at the very least, make available in
>  an unencrypted manner the channels that you would be able to receive
>  via an antenna.
>
>  They should do this either by normal unencrypted NTSC signals or
>  unencrypted QAM.
>
>  It may still be true that anything you might actually want to watch is
>  encrypted, but the cable shouldn't be "all digital and encrypted", at
>  least if you are in the USA.
>
>  beww
>

The do -- all the over-the-air channels I can get just fine.

My issue is with the sports channels -- those are all encrypted and
why I must use the box now.

Jeff