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

[Steven Adeff]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> 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.

for RCN?


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Steve
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