[mythtv-users] Comcast Set-Top Box and OSD

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:32:41PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Clark <jeff at vacantcanvas.com> wrote:
> > Comcast in Boston makes you use their box since all the channels are
> >  digital, which means that I definitely have to use a set-top box to
> >  control my channels (right?).
> >
> >  I'm curious though: when I hook my Mythbox up to my set-top box and
> >  change the channel to start a recording or whatever, won't the OSD
> >  from the Motorola box be recorded onto the Mythbox recording?  Is
> >  there any way around this?
> 
> Welcome to Boston Comcast...
> You can always use firewire, you'll get everything but the premium
> (read:movie) channels that way.
> RCN apparently has no 5C enabled for any channels. I'm looking into
> this as it will probably get me to switch ASAP. (and save $15/mo too
> apparently)

HBO and so forth are encrypted QAM; I don't know if they make
them available via FireWire.

-dsr-

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